Missing package dependency (on openmpi-bin)

[Lars Kr. Lundin]

Binary package hint: hpcc

$ sudo apt-get install hpcc
$ hpcc
[ga012257:01781] [[INVALID],INVALID] ORTE_ERROR_LOG: A system-required executable either could not be found or was not executable by this user in file ../../../../../../orte/mca/ess/singleton/ess_singleton_module.c at line 269
[ga012257:01781] [[INVALID],INVALID] ORTE_ERROR_LOG: A system-required executable either could not be found or was not executable by this user in file ../../../../../../orte/mca/ess/singleton/ess_singleton_module.c at line 143
[ga012257:01781] [[INVALID],INVALID] ORTE_ERROR_LOG: A system-required executable either could not be found or was not executable by this user in file ../../../orte/runtime/orte_init.c at line 132
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Sorry! You were supposed to get help about:
    orte_init:startup:internal-failure
But I couldn't open the help file:
    /usr/share/openmpi/help-orte-runtime: No such file or directory. Sorry!
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Sorry! You were supposed to get help about:
    mpi_init:startup:internal-failure
But I couldn't open the help file:
    /usr/share/openmpi/help-mpi-runtime: No such file or directory. Sorry!
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
*** An error occurred in MPI_Init
*** before MPI was initialized
*** MPI_ERRORS_ARE_FATAL (your MPI job will now abort)
[ga012257:1781] Abort before MPI_INIT completed successfully; not able to guarantee that all other processes were killed!

Work-around:
$ sudo apt-get install openmpi-bin

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: hpcc 1.4.0-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.33-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu May 20 15:29:21 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta i386 (20100406.1)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: hpcc
---
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: hpcc 1.4.0-1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.36-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Tags: lucid
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip fax floppy fuse lpadmin netdev plugdev sambashare tape video

[Lucas Nussbaum (lucas)]

hpcc doesn't require openmpi-bin to run: you can run it from another machien (where openmpi-bin is installed).
Also, the current packaging with mpi-defaults makes it a bit hard to add a Suggests or a Recommends on openmpi-bin, unfortunately.

[Lars Kr. Lundin (v-launchpad-lklundin-dk)]

Dear Mr. Nussbaum.

Thank you for your interest in the reported problem.

Your comments do not address that fact that the two commands
$ sudo apt-get install hpcc
$ hpcc
leads to the reported failure and error message.

At the time of my submission I had observed this problem on three different machines (32- and 64-bit) all with fresh Ubuntu 10.04 installations.

I am going to change the ticket status back to 'new' and attach to it output from apport-collect on a fourth machine, where I installed hpcc, but no other MPI related package.

[Lars Kr. Lundin (v-launchpad-lklundin-dk)]

apport information

[Lucas Nussbaum (lucas)]

fine, marking this won't fix, since it's not possible to fix it with the current mpi-defaults packaging.