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From: Hugh Merz (merz_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-03-08 15:52:18


Try `kill -l` to see a list of signals. Signal 7 is SIGBUS - probably a
memory alignment or hardware device problem.

Hugh

On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, William Brian Lane wrote:

> Hello.
>
> I was wondering if anyone could tell me what signal 7 means? It caused my
> program to halt during a call to the ScaLAPACK subroutine pdsytrd. I got
> the following error message:
>
> MPI_Recv: process in local group is dead (rank 1, comm 11)
> Rank (2, MPI_COMM_WORLD): Call stack within LAM:
> Rank (2, MPI_COMM_WORLD): - MPI_Recv()
> Rank (2, MPI_COMM_WORLD): - MPI_Bcast()
> Rank (2, MPI_COMM_WORLD): - main()
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> One of the processes started by mpirun has exited with a nonzero exit
> code. This typically indicates that the process finished in error.
> If your process did not finish in error, be sure to include a "return
> 0" or "exit(0)" in your C code before exiting the application.
>
> PID 6868 failed on node n3 (128.227.64.26) due to signal 7.
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Killed
>
> Thanks.
>
> Take care,
>
> Brian Lane
> blane_at_[hidden]
> http://plaza.ufl.edu/blane116
>
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