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Known issues

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Known Issues

Title Category Resolutionsort descending Description Posted Updated
Occasional failures in file permissions filesystem Resolved

Users may experience occasional failures in file permissions with our filesystem. We've opened a case with the vendor for further investigations. If you get 'permission denied' message when you...

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8 years 6 months ago 4 years 9 months ago
Partial Unavailability of Owens Nodes: 07/29 - 08/06 Outage Resolved

Partial Owens nodes will be unavailable from July 29, 2024, to August 6, 2024, due to power changes in preparation for the Cardinal installation. This outage won't affect any running batch jobs,...

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2 years 1 month ago 2 years 1 month ago
System reboot due to security vulnerability Resolved

2015/02/17 UPDATE - Security Patch Succesfully Implimented

All systems have been updated with the secuirty patch.  


Starting Thursday, 4:00PM we will begin taking systems...

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11 years 7 months ago 11 years 7 months ago
MATLAB (legacy) r2024a fails to launch on OnDemand Desktop Software Resolved
(workaround)

As of the downtime on 05/12/26 MATLAB (legacy) has stopped working when users try to open .m files in the GUI application for version r2024a. At the time we suggested to please use the...

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4 months 4 days ago 3 months 4 weeks ago
XDMOD outage: 9AM-4PM June 2 2021 Outage Resolved

There is a scheduled outage for XDMOD tool (xdmod.osc.edu) between 9AM-4PM June 2 2021 for upgrading to 9.5.0. During the outage XDMOD will be in maintain mode and not accessible by OSC users. ...

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5 years 3 months ago 5 years 3 months ago
Extra messages during job startup and ending on Owens and Pitzer Batch, Owens, Pitzer Resolved

All jobs on Owens and Pitzer that started or ended after 13:14 Monday, March 11 would see the following extra messages at the beginning and end of the job:

pmlogger: cannot open log "/...
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7 years 6 months ago 7 years 6 months ago
WARN SparkSession in Jupyter + Spark instance Software Resolved
(workaround)

You may encounter the following warning message when running a Spark instance using the default PySpark kernel in a Jupyter + Spark application:

WARN SparkSession: Using an...
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1 year 4 months ago 1 year 4 months ago
Podman storage error due to outdated configuration file Software Resolved
(workaround)

If you experience a storage error such as:

 write /var/tmp/storage388772891/1: no space left on device.

you may have an outdated ~/....

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1 year 1 month ago 1 year 1 month ago
Owens is in Partial Service Owens Resolved

3:45PM April 3, 2017 Update: GPU nodes on Owens are available. 

206 Owens nodes are not accessible to users due to GPU testing and a bad Ethernet switch. It is expected...

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9 years 5 months ago 9 years 5 months ago
ORCA Bind to CORE Failure 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.:

...
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3 years 4 months ago 1 year 4 months ago

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