Known issues

Unresolved known issues

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Known Issues

Title Category Resolutionsort descending Description Posted Updated
Stale File Handles on GPFS clients filesystem Resolved

OSC is experiencing some problems with the Project and Scratch filesystems that are resulting in some jobs seeing "stale file handles". We are investigating the problem and will provide updates as...

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7 years 8 months ago 7 years 8 months ago
Jobs reports 'excessive memory usage' message Owens, Pitzer Resolved

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6 years 6 months ago 4 years 4 months ago
Problems with MVAPICH2 Owens, Ruby, Software Resolved

Some MVAPICH2 MPI installations on Oakley, Ruby, and Owens, such as the default module mvapich2/2.2 as well as mvapich2/2.1, appear to have a bug that is triggered by certain programs.  The...

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10 years 7 months ago 4 years 4 months ago
Rolling Reboot for Security Fix Resolved

A rolling reboot is in progress to address CVE-2026-23111 (nf_tables logic bug) for all clusters, including Ascend, Cardinal, and Pitzer. Login nodes will be rebooted first and access...

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3 months 2 days ago 2 months 3 weeks ago
Nvidia drivers on Oakley GPU Resolved

We upgraded the drivers for the Nvidia GPUs on all of our clusters during the downtime this week. Unfortunately, we are noticing some subtle problems with the GPUs on Oakley. We will be rolling...

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9 years 11 months ago 8 years 3 months ago
Ansys OMP: System error #22: Invalid argument Cardinal Resolved
(workaround)

You may encounter the following error while running Ansys on Cardinal:

OMP: Error #100: Fatal system error detected.
OMP: System error #22: Invalid argument
forrtl: error (76): Abort...
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1 year 8 months ago 1 year 4 months ago
Brief disruption to external network, 2013/11/27 Connectivity Resolved

This maintenence was cancelled, to be rescheduled at some undetermined point in the future.

Between 12:01AM and 2:00AM Eastern on Wednesday, November 27th 2013, OARnet will be...

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12 years 10 months ago 12 years 9 months ago
ondemand gpu request error Nov 2021 Batch, OnDemand, Pitzer Resolved

When requesting an interactive session in ondemand and requesting gpu resources, users may see an error similar similar to  "sbatch: error: Invalid generic resource (gres) specification"

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4 years 9 months ago 4 years 9 months ago
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 5 months ago 4 years 9 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 2 weeks ago 11 months 1 week ago

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