I think it won't help - it looks like mpirun itself aborts if it only finds a loopback available.

On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 9:24 AM, Gustavo Correa <gus@ldeo.columbia.edu> wrote:
MM
Have you tried adding '-mca btl sm,self' to your mpirun command line,
as suggested by Terry? [despite the low chances that it would work ...]
If somehow the loopback interface is up, wouldn't it work?
Gus Correa

On Jan 17, 2012, at 7:01 AM, MM wrote:

> Gus, unfortunately, it doesn't seem to change the error.
> Ralph,  with the wireless adapter disabled, netstat on winxp still shows these ports as listening:
> Shouldn't the MS TCP Loopback interface allow the tcp ports to be created?
>
>
> >netstat -an
>
> Active Connections
>
>   Proto  Local Address          Foreign Address        State
>   TCP    0.0.0.0:135            0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING
>   TCP    0.0.0.0:445            0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING
>   TCP    0.0.0.0:2967           0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING
>   TCP    0.0.0.0:3389           0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING
>   TCP    0.0.0.0:4445           0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING
>   TCP    0.0.0.0:57632          0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING
>   TCP    127.0.0.1:1025         0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING
>   TCP    127.0.0.1:62514        0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING
>
> >route print
> ===========================================================================
> Interface List
> 0x1 ........................... MS TCP Loopback interface
> 0x2 ...00 24 d6 10 05 4e ...... Intel(R) WiFi Link 5100 AGN - Packet Scheduler Miniport
> ===========================================================================
> ===========================================================================
> Active Routes:
> Network Destination        Netmask          Gateway       Interface  Metric
>         127.0.0.0        255.0.0.0        127.0.0.1       127.0.0.1       1
>   255.255.255.255  255.255.255.255  255.255.255.255               2       1
> ===========================================================================
> Persistent Routes:
>   None
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: users-bounces@open-mpi.org [mailto:users-bounces@open-mpi.org] On Behalf Of Gustavo Correa
> Sent: 16 January 2012 23:54
> To: Open MPI Users
> Subject: Re: [OMPI users] localhost only
>
> Have you tried to specify the hosts with something like this?
>
> mpirun -np 2 -host localhost ./my_program
>
> See 'man mpirun' for more details.
>
> I hope it helps,
> Gus Correa
>
> On Jan 16, 2012, at 6:34 PM, MM wrote:
>
> > hi,
> >
> > when my wireless adapter is down on my laptop, only localhost is configured.
> > In this case, when I mpirun 2 binaries on my laptop, mpirun fails with this error:
> >
> >
> > It looks like orte_init failed for some reason; your parallel process i
> > likely to abort.  There are many reasons that a parallel process can
> > fail during orte_init; some of which are due to configuration or
> > environment problems.  This failure appears to be an internal failure;
> > here's some additional information (which may only be relevant to an
> > Open MPI developer):
> >
> >   orte_rml_base_select failed
> >   --> Returned value Error (-1) instead of ORTE_SUCCESS
> >
> >
> >
> > when I turn on the wireless adapter back on, the mpirun works fine
> >
> > Is there a way to make mpirun realize all my binaries run on the same box, and therefore don't need any other interface but localhost?
> >
> > PS: this is ipconfig when the wireless adapter is off
> >
> > >ipconfig /all
> >
> > Windows IP Configuration
> >
> >         Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . :
> >         Primary Dns Suffix  . . . . . . . :
> >         Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid
> >         IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
> >         WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
> >
> > Ethernet adapter Wireless Network Connection:
> >
> >         Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
> >         Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Intel(R) WiFi Link 5100 AGN
> >         Physical Address. . . . . . . . . :
> >
> > rds,
> >
> > MM
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