>No, that's not necessary. So, within GDB, I ran the program, but disas command says "no frame selected". please see below $ cat sc.sh #!/bin/bash ulimit -c unlimited exec /share/apps/siesta/siesta-4.0/tpar/transiesta < trans-cc-bt-cc-163-20.fdf $ cat sc2.sh #!/bin/bash /share/apps/siesta/openmpi-2.0.0/bin/mpirun -hostfile hosts.txt -np 15 sc.sh $ gdb --args bash sc2.sh (gdb) r Starting program: /bin/bash sc2.sh Detaching after fork from child process 29640. .... .... -------------------------------------------------------------------------- mpirun noticed that process rank 0 with PID 9443 on node compute-0-1 exited on signal 4 (Illegal instruction). -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Program exited with code 0204. (gdb) disas No frame selected. (gdb) Any idea? Regards, Mahmood