Dear MS users,

We are facing diffuculty in starting the MS Gateway. We are using MS5.5 on OpenSuse 12.3 (64 bit) server.

Following are the outputs of gwstart and gwtest and gwinfo.

rioja MS55/UNIX# /opt/apps/MS55/etc/Gateway/gwstart

Server configuration...

ONETEP

PowderQPA

Gaussian

ConQuest

Morphology

Sorption

Discover

CSDMotifSearch

AC

MatServer

Conformers

Polymorph

Mesocite

DPD

Blends

AdsorptionLocator

PowderRefinement

DFTBpara

VAMP

QMERA

DMol3

GULP

MesoDyn

AmorphousCellConstruct

FastDesc

QSARModels

Motif

Scripting

Kinetix

PowderIndexing

CASTEP

Equilibria

PowderSolve

DFTB

Forcite

Server configuration complete

Starting gateway at rioja:18888

/opt/apps/MS55/etc/Gateway/root_default/httpd/bin/apachectl start: httpd started

Gateway start failed - process 5202 is not running.

rioja MS55/UNIX# /opt/apps/MS55/etc/Gateway/gwtest

Testing gateway installation for script u/dsd_test.pl

Running GET for url http://rioja:18888/dsd/commands/u/dsd_test.pl

Error: 500 Can't connect to rioja:18888 (connect: Connection refused)

Now try a POST...

Retesting url http://rioja:18888/dsd/commands/u/dsd_test.pl

Error: 500 Can't connect to rioja:18888 (connect: Connection refused)

rioja MS55/UNIX# /opt/apps/MS55/etc/Gateway/gwinfo

Getting current gateway parameter information...

gw_archivejobinfo = no

gw_authentication = minimum

gw_configroot = /opt/apps/MS55/etc/Gateway/configurations/default

gw_configroot_escaped = /opt/apps/MS55/etc/Gateway/configurations/default

gw_configuserid = root

gw_corespercpu = auto

gw_cpu = Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           E5620  @ 2.40GHz 2393 MHz

gw_cpuclock = 2393 MHz

gw_cpucorestotal = 16

gw_cputype = Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           E5620  @ 2.40GHz

gw_docroot = /opt/apps/MS55/etc/Gateway/root_default

gw_gatewayname = rioja_18888

gw_hostname = rioja

gw_installedmemory = 16064 MB

gw_ipaddress = 172.28.10.3

gw_jobpriority = low

gw_jobsdocroot = /opt/apps/MS55/etc/Gateway/root_default

gw_jobspath = /opt/apps/MS55/etc/Gateway

gw_jobspath_escaped = /opt/apps/MS55/etc/Gateway

gw_licensewaitoverride = undefined

gw_mountcomment = #

gw_mpi = yes

gw_mpiavailable = yes

gw_mpicommand = /opt/hpmpi/bin/mpirun -e MPI_REMSH=/usr/bin/ssh -prot -f APPFILE

gw_mpiversion = 2.03.01.00

gw_msrootpath = /opt/apps/MS55

gw_osname = linux

gw_osversion = 3.7.10-1.16-desktop

gw_path = /opt/apps/MS55/etc/Gateway

gw_path_escaped = /opt/apps/MS55/etc/Gateway

gw_perlexe = /opt/apps/MS55/bin/perl

gw_perlplatform = x86_64-linux-thread-multi

gw_perlversion = 5.8.9

gw_pollingfrequency = 5000

gw_port = 18888

gw_queuingsystem = [none]

gw_ram = 16064 MB

gw_revision = 2010.07.30

gw_scriptspath = /opt/apps/MS55/etc/Gateway/root_default/dsd/servers

gw_tmpdir = /opt/apps/MS55/etc/Gateway/root_default/CGItmpfiles

gw_transport = ssloff

gw_type = cluster

gw_unixcomment = #

gw_versionmajor = 5

gw_versionminor = 5

gw_win32comment =

...Information complete

We could not understand the origin of the problem. Please respond so that we can

start running MS.

Chandan

National Chemical Laboratory

India