Re: FlexLM and ICC9 under AMD64 Debian

[Jo Shields <Jo.Shields@comlab.ox.ac.uk>]

Okay, I solved the problem. It's not directly AMD64 related, but at 
least replaying to myself will preserve the solution for posterity and 
for Google.

The key lies in the message "Server node is down or not responding 
(-96,482)" - and the method the Vendor daemon uses to verify lmgrd's 
host is enabled. That method... is to try and log onto that host via 
telnet. If "telnet $(hostname) 23" returns anything but a login prompt, 
then assume lmgrd is missing, and fail.

So. the solution?

aptitude install telnetd, then edit /etc/hosts so $(hostname) resolves 
to 127.0.0.1

Not an AMD64 problem, the problem is "Debian isn't bloody stupid enough 
to run a login telnetd by default".

Hopefully, this might help someone else in future.

--Jo Shields

Jo Shields wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> We've recently installed the Intel C Compiler 9 for EM64T onto a 
> Debian Sarge machine (stock 2.6.8 SMP EM64T kernel), and have been 
> having some major problems with Intel's version of the FlexLM license 
> manager.
>
> 16:52:51 (lmgrd) Starting vendor daemons ...
> 16:52:51 (INTEL) FLEXlm version 9.23
> 16:52:51 (INTEL) Server started on lic1 for:
> 16:52:51 (INTEL) I000000000000020000000000 (consisting 
> of:              CCompL)
> 16:52:51 (lmgrd) Started INTEL (internet tcp_port 36211 pid 18718)
> 16:53:01 (INTEL) Vendor daemon can't talk to lmgrd (Server node is 
> down or not responding (-96,482))
> 16:53:01 (lmgrd) Vendor daemon died with status 37
> 16:53:01 (lmgrd) Since this is an unknown status, lmgrd will
> 16:53:01 (lmgrd) attempt to re-start the vendor daemon.
>
> This repeats ad infinitum.
>
> A google for "Vendor daemon died with status 37" points to a single 
> instance of the error, where the explanation was "FlexLM has issues 
> with recent 2.4 kernels" - which is not encouraging, given the 3.2Ghz 
> EM64T Xeon machine.
>
> The version of the FlexLM manager is a modified intel variant of 9.23, 
> compiled for use with RHEL3 - all the libraries it's supposed to use 
> are at least of a same version as RHEL3
>
> Copious use of "linux32" doesn't seem to help, either.
>
> Does anyone else have experience of ICC or FlexLM on AMD64 Debian, and 
> can give some suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
>
> --Jo Shields