Known issues

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Known Issues

Title Category Resolutionsort descending Description Posted Updated
Critical change about using $PFSDIR directory at OSC Batch Resolved

Starting from Thursday, Feb 2nd, the $PFSDIR directory on scratch (/fs/scratch) won’t be created by job prologue. For example, if you simply use the command cd $PFSDIR,...

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9 years 8 months ago 9 years 8 months ago
Inviting user to a project based on project and user types (academic/commercial/classroom) client portal Resolved

A recent update has corrected this error.

6 years 11 months ago 6 years 7 months ago
OnDemand with Safari Web Services Resolved

Currently, if you have popups blocked in Safari, some services in OSC OnDemand (most notably the HPC terminal) will silently fail to work. We are working on a solution, as well as a workaround for...

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12 years 6 months ago 10 years 12 months ago
Slurm to be Upgraded to Version 23.11.4 Owens, Pitzer Resolved

Updates on 04/08/2024:

The rolling reboots are completed. 

Updates:

We will perform rolling reboots on this...

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2 years 7 months ago 2 years 6 months ago
ACEs of a file in user's home directory will be lost using vim or cp filesystem Resolved

Access Control Entries (ACEs) of a file in the user's home directory will be lost if the file is modified using vim.  In addition, the newly created file using the cp...

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8 years 2 months ago 8 years 2 months ago
Client Portal inaccessible client portal Resolved

All users are currently unable to login to OSC client portal.

When attempting to login to OSC...

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5 years 10 months ago 5 years 10 months ago
module spider/avail/show not showing MPI dependent modules Ruby Resolved

On Ruby, the commands:

  • module spider
  • module avail
  • module show...
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11 years 5 months ago 11 years 1 week ago
Intermittent failure of default CPU binding Software Resolved
(workaround)

The default CPU binding for ORCA jobs can fail sporadically.  The failure is almost immediate and produces a cryptic error message, e.g.

$ORCA/orca h2o.in...
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1 year 5 months ago 1 year 5 months ago
Code Server ondemand.osc.edu cannot open this folder because it contains system files OnDemand, Software Resolved

Trying to download a directory through code server results in the error "ondemand.osc.edu cannot open this folder because it contains system files"

To work...

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11 months 4 weeks ago 11 months 4 weeks ago
Python version mismatch in Jupyter + Spark instance Software Resolved
(workaround)

You may encounter the following error message when running a Spark instance using a custom kernel in the Jupyter + Spark app:

25/04/25 10:49:01 WARN TaskSetManager:...
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1 year 5 months ago 10 months 1 week ago

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