Ansys Assistant will be unavailable on the Learning Forum starting January 30. An upgraded version is coming soon. We apologize for any inconvenience and appreciate your patience. Stay tuned for updates.
General

General

How to avoid the error/warning message “Unable to start message handler”when running ANSYS CFX in parallel

    • FAQFAQ
      Participant

      The following error/warning message can appear when running ANSYS CFX parallel: +——————————————————————–+ | Job Information at Start of Run | +——————————————————————–+ Run mode: parallel run (MPI) Job started: Wed Jun 7 12:33:05 2017 +——————————————————————–+ | ERROR #001100288 has occurred in subroutine CTRL_MESG_HANDLER. | | Message: | | The following message handling error occurred: | | Unable to start message handler. | | Hostname: newton01 | | Port number: 0 | | | | Messages will now be handled using a less robust method, | | with a greater risk of parallel deadlocks. | | | | Note: Ensure that the hostname shown above can be resolved | | from all hosts used for the run. | +——————————————————————–+ If this occurs, please check: -Network settings in /etc/hosts -Password-less ssh login -Check the default path (if the default path points to a gateway that is not reachable, password-less ssh and parallel simulations are possible, but the message handler is still unable to start and a less robust messaging method is used.