[mvapich-discuss] mpirun_rsh not parsing arguments

[Jonathan Perkins]

On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Thiago Ize <thiago at sci.utah.edu> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> mpirun_rsh doesn't seem to correctly parse my program's command line
> arguments.  For instance, here's a simplified version that breaks:
>
> $ mpirun_rsh -np 2 -hostfile ../build/hosts bin/manta "()"
>
> /bin/bash: -c: line 0: syntax error near unexpected token `('
> /bin/bash: -c: line 0: `cd /home/sci/thiago/work/manta-mpi/build-mvapich2;
> /usr/bin/env
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/mvapich/lib/shared:/home/sci/thiago/apps/linux64/mvapich2/lib:/home/sci/thiago/apps/linux64/mvapich2/lib/shared:/usr/local/cuda/lib64:/usr/local/cuda/lib:
> MPISPAWN_MPIRUN_MPD=0 USE_LINEAR_SSH=1 MPISPAWN_MPIRUN_HOST=tesla5
> MPIRUN_RSH_LAUNCH=1 MPISPAWN_CHECKIN_PORT=54714 MPISPAWN_MPIRUN_PORT=54714
> MPISPAWN_NNODES=2 MPISPAWN_GLOBAL_NPROCS=2 MPISPAWN_MPIRUN_ID=28172
> MPISPAWN_ARGC=4 MPDMAN_KVS_TEMPLATE=kvs_280_tesla5_28172
> MPISPAWN_LOCAL_NPROCS=1 MPISPAWN_ARGV_0=bin/manta MPISPAWN_ARGV_1=-np
> MPISPAWN_ARGV_2=2 MPISPAWN_ARGV_3=() MPISPAWN_GENERIC_ENV_COUNT=1
>  MPISPAWN_GENERIC_NAME_0=MV2_XRC_FILE
> MPISPAWN_GENERIC_VALUE_0=mv2_xrc_550_tesla5_28172 MPISPAWN_ID=0
> MPISPAWN_WORKING_DIR=/home/sci/thiago/work/manta-mpi/build-mvapich2
> MPISPAWN_MPIRUN_RANK_0=0 MPISPAWN_VIADEV_DEFAULT_PORT_0=-1
>  /home/sci/thiago/apps/linux64/mvapich2/bin/mpispawn 0'
> Error in init phase...wait for cleanup! (0/2 mpispawn connections)
>
> Regular parameters that don't have quotation marks and parenthesis, such as
> -foo, work correctly.  Any ideas what I should do?

It appears that this problem is coming because the parameters as scene
by mpirun_rsh don't include the quotes and are being passed to a
second shell without them.  Can you try the following?

mpirun_rsh -np 2 -hostfile ../build/hosts bin/manta "\"()\""

-- 
Jonathan Perkins
http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~perkinjo