[Octopus-users] broken pipe? failed and skipped parallel tests in make check

[Emily]

Hi Octopus Users,

Now that my configure, make, and make install commands seem to go okay,
I have a question about make check.

I'm installing the parallel version of Octopus 3.2.0.  The non-parallel
version installed fine, and passed all the tests in make check.

The parallel version passes 34/38 tests on make check.  It has a bunch
of broken pipe error messages.  It fails 2 of the testcases of
finite_systems_3d/21-lobpcg.test.  In the /04-propagate_eigenstate.test
it can't find the file "out".  It skips 3 tests because it says it can't
find executables.
(./finite_systems_3d/02-curvilinear_coordinates.test,
./optimal_control/01-asym_doublewell.test,
./real_time/04-etrs_single.test)

The broken pipe messages seem to be interspersed randomly (not in the
tests that failed), but if I run make check again, they occur in exactly
the same places.  

Anybody know how to fix these problems? 

I am running the make check from my home directory that every node can
see and write to, rather than my usual way of copying the executable and
inp to a /tmp directory on the relevant node.  Is this the correct thing
to do?  Will I have to run octopus_mpi this way also?  Is there any more
in-depth information about the way the parallelization works that I
should read other than the brief overview in the manual and the variable
reference?

Here are some relevant snippets of the output of my makecheck:
        
No valid executable found for
./finite_systems_3d/02-curvilinear_coordinates.test
Skipping ...

 ***** Propagate eigenstate of 1D square well *****  

Using workdir    :
/home/et/octopus/Oct3/octopus-3.2.0/tmp/octopus.7Qt65G 
Using executable :
/home/et/octopus/Oct3/octopus-3.2.0/testsuite/../src/main/octopus_mpi
Using test file  : ./open_systems/04-propagate_eigenstate.test 
cat: /home/et/octopus/Oct3/octopus-3.2.0/tmp/octopus.7Qt65G/out: No such
file or directory

 ***** Asymmetric Double Well *****  

No valid executable found for ./optimal_control/01-asym_doublewell.test
Skipping ... 

No valid executable found for ./real_time/04-etrs_single.test
Skipping ... 

 ***** LOBPCG (parallel) *****  

Using workdir    :
/home/et/octopus/Oct3/octopus-3.2.0/tmp/octopus.lXurFV 
Using executable :
/home/et/octopus/Oct3/octopus-3.2.0/testsuite/../src/main/octopus_mpi
Using test file  : ./finite_systems_3d/21-lobpcg.test 

Using input file : ./finite_systems_3d/21-lobpcg.01-spin_polarized.inp 

Starting test run ...
Executing: cd /home/et/octopus/Oct3/octopus-3.2.0/tmp/octopus.lXurFV;
/usr/local/intel/mpich/64/bin/mpirun -n 2
/home/et/octopus/Oct3/octopus-3.2.0/testsuite/../src/main/octopus_mpi >
out 
Finished test run.

 Eigenvalue 1 up:         [   OK   ] 
 Eigenvalue 1 dn:         [   OK   ] 
 Eigenvalue 2 up:         [   OK   ] 
 Eigenvalue 2 dn:         [   OK   ] 
 Eigenvalue 3 up:         [   OK   ] 
 Eigenvalue 3 dn:         [   OK   ] 
 Eigenvalue 4 up:         [   OK   ] 
could not find input file: ./finite_systems_3d/21-lobpcg.02-spinors.inp
 Eigenvalue 4 dn:         [   OK   ]