[MASTER] update-alternatives: error: alternative mpiexec can't be master: it is a slave of mpirun

[G. Jay Kerns]

hkjhksd

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Nov 10 19:49:21 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ErrorMessage:
 ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Package: openmpi-bin 1.3.2-3ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-15.50-generic
SourcePackage: openmpi
Title: package openmpi-bin 1.3.2-3ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade:
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-15-generic i686

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

I am closing this report because the bug has been fixed in the latest development version of Ubuntu - Lucid Lynx.

openmpi (1.3.3-3)
Removed mpiexec alternative, as discussed in #552429. It is now a slave of the mpirun master alternative. Also raised the priority to 40, along with MPICH2. Closes: #493876.

If you need a fix for the bug in previous versions of Ubuntu, please do steps 1 and 2 of the SRU Procedure [1] to bring the need to a developer's attention.

[1]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#Procedure

[gbwust (gbwust)]

That is great news!

2009/11/23 Jean-Baptiste Lallement <email address hidden>

> I am closing this report because the bug has been fixed in the latest
> development version of Ubuntu - Lucid Lynx.
>
> openmpi (1.3.3-3)
> Removed mpiexec alternative, as discussed in #552429. It is now a slave of
> the mpirun master alternative. Also raised the priority to 40, along with
> MPICH2. Closes: #493876.
>
> If you need a fix for the bug in previous versions of Ubuntu, please do
> steps 1 and 2 of the SRU Procedure [1] to bring the need to a
> developer's attention.
>
> [1]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#Procedure
>
>
> ** Changed in: openmpi (Ubuntu)
> Status: Confirmed => Fix Released
>
> --
> [MASTER] update-alternatives: error: alternative mpiexec can't be master:
> it is a slave of mpirun
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/480455
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of a duplicate bug.
>
> Status in “openmpi” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released
> Status in “openmpi” package in Debian: Fix Released
>
> Bug description:
> hkjhksd
>
> ProblemType: Package
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Tue Nov 10 19:49:21 2009
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
> ErrorMessage:
> ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error
> exit status 2
> Package: openmpi-bin 1.3.2-3ubuntu1
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-15.50-generic
> SourcePackage: openmpi
> Title: package openmpi-bin 1.3.2-3ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade:
> Uname: Linux 2.6.31-15-generic i686
>

[Lucas Nussbaum (lucas)]

I prepared a SRU for this bug, based on my NMU of the openmpi debian package.

The patch syncs the alternative code with was is done in the Debian package.

Changelog:
 openmpi (1.3.2-3ubuntu1.1) karmic-proposed; urgency=low
 .
   * SRU to backport the alternatives fix from the Debian NMU 1.3.3-3.1
     (also made by me, after coordination with the OpenMPI maintainer).
     See Debian bug #552429 for details.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

Accepted into karmic-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

[Bug Fire (firebug36)]

worked for me

[Philipp Edelmann (tukss)]

One of my colleges had this problem with Karmic. Installing the package from proposed fixed it for him.

[Bruno Rocha Coutinho (bruno-r-coutinho)]

I'm using Lucid and got the opporite messge:

Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up openmpi-bin (1.4.1-2) ...
update-alternatives: error: alternative mpiexec can't be slave of mpirun: it is a master alternative.
dpkg: error processing openmpi-bin (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 openmpi-bin
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[Lucas Nussbaum (lucas)]

On 02/05/10 at 06:08 -0000, Bruno Rocha Coutinho wrote:
> I'm using Lucid and got the opporite messge:
>
> Processing triggers for man-db ...
> Setting up openmpi-bin (1.4.1-2) ...
> update-alternatives: error: alternative mpiexec can't be slave of mpirun: it is a master alternative.
> dpkg: error processing openmpi-bin (--configure):
> subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> openmpi-bin
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Could you run:
dpkg -l |grep mpi
and post the output on this bug report?

That should not happen, so I'd like to know which versions of MPI you
have installed.
--
| Lucas Nussbaum
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[Bruno Rocha Coutinho (bruno-r-coutinho)]

My mpi packages:

rc libboost-mpi1.40.0 1.40.0-2ubuntu2 C++ interface to the Message Passing Interfa
ii libexempi3 2.1.1-1build2 library to parse XMP metadata (Library)
ii libopenmpi-dev 1.4.1-2 high performance message passing library --
ii libopenmpi1.3 1.4.1-2 high performance message passing library --
iF openmpi-bin 1.4.1-2 high performance message passing library --
ii openmpi-common 1.4.1-2 high performance message passing library --
ii openmpi-doc 1.4.1-2 high performance message passing library --

[Bruno Rocha Coutinho (bruno-r-coutinho)]

update alternatives:

coutinho@darkstar:~$ update-alternatives --display mpirun
mpirun - auto mode
 link currently points to /usr/bin/mpirun.openmpi
/usr/bin/mpirun.openmpi - priority 5
 slave mpirun.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/mpirun.openmpi.1.gz
Current `best' version is /usr/bin/mpirun.openmpi.
coutinho@darkstar:~$ update-alternatives --display mpiexec
mpiexec - auto mode
 link currently points to /usr/bin/mpiexec.openmpi
/usr/bin/mpiexec.openmpi - priority 5
 slave mpiexec.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/mpiexec.openmpi.1.gz
Current `best' version is /usr/bin/mpiexec.openmpi.
coutinho@darkstar:~$

[Lucas Nussbaum (lucas)]

Bruno, could you try to explain how you got there? Was it when trying to upgrade from karmic to lucid? Did you have all available updates for karmic installed?

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[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

karmic has seen the end of its life and is no longer receiving any updates. Marking the karmic task for this ticket as "Won't Fix".