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From: Jeff Squyres (jsquyres_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-12-09 07:22:29


What is happening here is that LAM has somehow determined that
"localhost" does not resolve to an IP address that is available on your
machine.

What is the output of running "ifconfig"?

On Dec 9, 2004, at 2:13 AM, Marc Vogt wrote:

> Hello
>
> I am having problems with lamboot and wondered if anyone could help.
>
> [mtv_at_tamarind ~]$ recon
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> ------
> The boot SSI rsh module found that your local host is not in the
> hostfile "/usr/local/etc/lam-bhost.def".
>
> The local host name *must* be in the list of hosts in the hostfile.
> In other words, you must boot LAM from a node that will be part of the
> universe.
>
> - If you simply forgot to put the local host in the boot
> schema file, add it and re-run The boot SSI rsh module
> - If you are trying to boot LAM from a node that will not be
> part of the universe, you must login to on of the nodes that
> will be part of the universe (i.e., one of the nodes in the
> hostfiles), and re-run The boot SSI rsh module
>
> Although the local host name is usually the first in the list to avoid
> I/O ambiguities, it can actually appear anywhere in the list.
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> ------
>
> Same message occurs for regular lamboot.
>
> /usr/local/etc/lam-bhost.def does include localhost
>
> My version is lam-7.1.1 compiled from source but I tried from
> lam-7.1.1-2.i586.rpm and lam-6.5.4-usysv.1.i386.rpm
> cleaning up properly in between and got the same message.
>
> I am trying to set this up on a dual processor machine
> running FC3 with 2.6.9-1.667smp kernel that is using dhcp
> to obtain host address.
>
> /etc/hosts has only:
>
> 127.0.0.1 tamarind localhost.localdomain localhost
>
>
>
>
> thanks for any help!
>
> Marc
>
>
>
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