Known issues

Unresolved known issues

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Resolved known issues

A known issue with a Resolved (workaround) Resolution state is an ongoing problem; a permanent workaround is available which may include using different software or hardware.

A known issue with Resolved Resolution state has been corrected.

Known Issues

Title Category Resolutionsort ascending Description Posted Updated
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 9 months ago 12 years 9 months ago
my.osc.edu outbound email outage Account Management, client portal, login, Login Problems Resolved

There is an issue with my.osc.edu sending outbound emails, including the 'Forgot Password' emails.

There is ongoing work to resolve this issue as soon as possible. 

Contact OSC...

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6 years 7 months ago 6 years 7 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
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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3 months 3 weeks ago 3 months 2 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
Addressing CP2K 7.1 Memory Issues on Pitzer and Owens Clusters Owens, Pitzer Resolved
(workaround)

According to https://github.com/cp2k/cp2k/issues/1830 and user feedback, you may encounter Out-of-Memory (OOM) errors during long molecular...

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1 year 9 months ago 1 year 3 months ago
Unscheduled GPFS Outage filesystem Resolved

As of 11:30PM on June 16th, we have removed the GPFS filesystem from service due to a number of hardware failures. At this point, further hardware failures would put a large portion of the entire...

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11 years 2 months ago 11 years 2 months ago
Jupyter security issue Aug. 13, 2021 Maintenance, OnDemand, Software Resolved

Please do not run any Jupyter applications at OSC until further notice due to a security vulnerability.

OSC will update JupyterLab and Jupyter Notebook applications to rectify this as soon...

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5 years 3 weeks ago 5 years 2 weeks ago
Group membership discrepancies Account Management, client portal Resolved

Group changes may not always propagate through to our HPC Systems, although they show in the Client Portal (my.osc.edu). 

Issue: if you are added to a project that is still in a REQUESTED...

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7 years 1 month ago 7 years 1 hour 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

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