unknown status after lmgrd -96 error

I have PGI installed in /usr/local/pgi on an AMD64, with my licence file in /usr/local/flexlm/pgi.dat, and a symlink /usr/local/pgi/license.dat pointing to it. I have also tried moving the file itself to /usr/local/pgi/license.dat but no difference results.

The resulting output of running lmgrd is as follows below. I’ve truncated the 10-times-repeated set of output down to twice.

Am I doing something wrong here? As far as I understand, I need to run the installer, put in our license file, set the PGI, LM_LICENSE_FILE, PATH and MANPATH env vars, and I’m ready to run.

TIA,
Greg.

13:50:25 (lmgrd) FLEXnet Licensing (v10.1.3) started on tsunami (linux) (1/11/2006)
13:50:25 (lmgrd) Copyright (c) 1988-2004 by Macrovision Corporation. All rights reserved.
13:50:25 (lmgrd) US Patents 5,390,297 and 5,671,412.
13:50:25 (lmgrd) World Wide Web: http://www.macrovision.com
13:50:25 (lmgrd) License file(s): /usr/local/pgi/license.dat
13:50:25 (lmgrd) lmgrd tcp-port 7496
13:50:25 (lmgrd) Starting vendor daemons …
– REPEAT STARTS HERE –
13:50:25 (lmgrd) Started pgroupd (internet tcp_port 32909 pid 18633)
13:50:25 (pgroupd) FLEXnet Licensing version 10.1.3
13:50:25 (pgroupd) Server started on tsunami for: pghpf-linux86
13:50:25 (pgroupd) pgf90-linux86 pgf77-linux86 pghpf-linux86-64
13:50:25 (pgroupd) pgf90-linux86-64 pgf77-linux86-64 pgprof
13:50:25 (pgroupd) pgdbg pgdbg-linux86-64
13:50:25 (pgroupd) Vendor daemon can’t talk to the license server manager (lmgrd
) (License server machine is down or not responding. (-96,7))
13:50:25 (lmgrd) Vendor daemon died with status 37
13:50:25 (lmgrd) Since this is an unknown status, license server
13:50:25 (lmgrd) manager (lmgrd) will attempt to re-start the vendor daemon.
– REPEAT STARTS HERE –
13:50:25 (lmgrd) REStarted pgroupd (internet tcp_port 32910 pid 18634)
13:50:25 (pgroupd) FLEXnet Licensing version 10.1.3
13:50:25 (pgroupd) Server started on tsunami for: pghpf-linux86
13:50:25 (pgroupd) pgf90-linux86 pgf77-linux86 pghpf-linux86-64
13:50:25 (pgroupd) pgf90-linux86-64 pgf77-linux86-64 pgprof
13:50:25 (pgroupd) pgdbg pgdbg-linux86-64
13:50:25 (pgroupd) Vendor daemon can’t talk to the license server manager (lmgrd
) (License server machine is down or not responding. (-96,7))
13:50:25 (lmgrd) Vendor daemon died with status 37
13:50:25 (lmgrd) Since this is an unknown status, license server
13:50:25 (lmgrd) manager (lmgrd) will attempt to re-start the vendor daemon.
– REPEAT STARTS HERE –
… snip

Hi Greg,

The Flexlm documentation says that error -96 occurs when the license server is not running. But it looks up to me! So something must be preventing a TCP/IP connection between pgroupd and lmgrd. Do you have a local firewall enabled? Also, are you able to telnet to tsunami while running on tsunami (i.e. Can your system establish a TCP/IP connect with itself?)

  • Mat