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  1. Karmic (9.10)
  2. Bug #480455
  3. Comment #9

Comment 9 for bug 480455

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Lucas Nussbaum (lucas) wrote : Re: [Bug 480455] Re: [MASTER] update-alternatives: error: alternative mpiexec can't be master: it is a slave of mpirun

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.
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