We should have an option to disable the test.
Matt
On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 5:31 PM Satish Balay via petsc-users <
petsc-users@mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Sep 2020, Mark Adams wrote:
>
> > I rebased over master and started getting this error.
> > I did reinstall MPICH (brew) recently.
> > Any ideas?
> > Thanks,
> > Mark
>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Exception: Your hostname will not work with MPI, perhaps you have VPN
> running whose network settings may not play well with MPI or your network
> is misconfigured
>
> *******************************************************************************
>
>
> Ok - this is a new test that got added to check for broken network that
> breaks MPI.
>
> Here is the check:
>
> Executing: ping -c 2 MarksMac-302.local
>
> The check says you have broken network settings. [as its not responding to
> ping.]
>
> Does MPI work fine on this box? You can try disabling this check
> (manually) - and do the build, and run
>
> Does MPI run fine?
>
> Satish
>
>
> >>>>>>>>>>>
>
> diff --git a/config/BuildSystem/config/packages/MPI.py
> b/config/BuildSystem/config/packages/MPI.py
> index 2e130fdcfe..8464de6773 100644
> --- a/config/BuildSystem/config/packages/MPI.py
> +++ b/config/BuildSystem/config/packages/MPI.py
> @@ -267,7 +267,7 @@ shared libraries and run with
> --known-mpi-shared-libraries=1')
> if ret != 0:
> raise RuntimeError(errormessage+" Return code %s\n" % ret)
> except:
> - raise RuntimeError("Exception: "+errormessage)
> + pass
> else:
> self.logPrint("Unable to get result from hostname, skipping
> ping check\n")
>
>
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