Hello again, I dug a bit deeper and found that the default IO component (romio) is not built due to an autoconf issue I don't understand. It looks like some macros in ompi/mca/io/romio/romio/configure are not expanded/substituted. Cheers, Cihan On 31/08/12 12:54, Cihan Altinay wrote: > Hi list, > > It appears there is a problem with the OpenMPI I/O library on CentOS 6.2 > & 6.3 (package openmpi-1.5.4-1.el6.x86_64). > > When I compile the attached program it ends up in the error path since > MPI_File_open returns 16. The corresponding (unhelpful) message is: > MPI_ERR_OTHER: known error not in list > > I couldn't find any pointers on the net and the same program works with > OpenMPI 1.4.5 on a debian system. > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > Cheers, > Cihan >