Known issues

Unresolved known issues

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Resolved known issues

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A known issue with Resolved Resolution state has been corrected.

Known Issues

Title Category Resolutionsort descending Description Posted Updated
HCOLL-related failures in OpenMPI applications Cardinal, Software Resolved
(workaround)

Several applications using OpenMPI, including HDF5, Boost, Rmpi, ORCA, and CP2K, may fail with errors such as

mca_coll_hcoll_module_enable() coll_hcol: mca_coll_hcoll_save_coll_handlers...
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1 year 12 months ago 1 year 5 months ago
Intermittent DNS issues Resolved

3/9/15 Update: The DNS issues have been resolved.  In total, the following services may have been affected by the DNS issues:

  • Logging in / Connecting out to...
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11 years 7 months ago 11 years 7 months ago
Correction on OSC project restriction email Account Management Resolved

Updated:

OSC has resolved this morning's issue and reverted impacted projects back to an ACTIVE status. Queued jobs under those projects will be able to start once today's...

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5 years 3 months ago 5 years 3 months ago
Issues with GPFS filesystem since Saturday May 18 filesystem Resolved

Update Posted on 20 May 2019 13:24

We fixed the problem with both project and scratch filesystem. Please contact oschelp@osc.edu if...

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7 years 4 months ago 7 years 4 months ago
Resolved: Home directory space Issue with MATLAB 2024a Software Resolved

Users may experience their home directory running out of space after executing multiple MATLAB 2024a jobs. This issue is caused by the accumulation of multiple copies of the MathWorks Service...

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1 year 4 months ago 1 year 4 months ago
MPI fails with UCX 1.18 Software Resolved
(workaround)

After the downtime on August 19, 2025, users may encounter UCX errors such as:

UCX ERROR no active messages transport to <no debug data>: self/memory -...
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1 year 1 month ago 1 year 6 days ago
my.osc.edu is NOT available Account Management Resolved

my.osc.edu has not been fully restored after yesterday's downtime. You can change your password, but you will not be able to use the new password on my.osc.edu. The updated password will work to...

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9 years 4 months ago 9 years 4 months ago
MOE license server down Licensing Resolved

The MOE license server is experiencing an unknown issue and potentially down.  We are working to resolve the issue.

3 years 3 weeks ago 3 years 3 weeks ago
Lustre, Infiniband Operational and Being Monitored Closely filesystem Resolved

UPDATE: Most users should no longer see any issues with Lustre.


Again, please continue to notify OSC Help of any errors you see in job output. For example, you might see "...

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12 years 2 months ago 12 years 2 months ago
OpenMPI job stopped at 'There are not enough slots available in the system to satisfy the slots' Owens, Pitzer, Software Resolved

Users would encounter a MPI job failed with openmpi/3.1.0-hpcx on Owens and Pitzer. The job would stop with the error  like "There are not enough slots available in the system to...

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6 years 2 months ago 6 years 1 month ago

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