Known issues

Unresolved known issues

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Resolved known issues

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Known Issues

Title Category Resolutionsort descending Description Posted Updated
Login problem Resolved

Around 10am EDT, OSC began to experience problems with our infrastructure.  Login sessions began to be affected around 11:30 EDT. The problem was resolved around 1pm EDT, and all systems have...

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2 years 3 months ago 2 years 3 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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2 months 4 days ago 1 month 3 weeks ago
Oakley login node problems Resolved

One of the Oakley login nodes (oakley01) has experienced some hardware failures and is temporarily out of service while repairs are ongoing.

Please limit your interactive use of the...

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11 years 8 months ago 11 years 8 months ago
Cannot use mpiexec/mpirun from OpenMPI in an interactive session Owens, Pitzer, Software Resolved
(workaround)

We found mpiexec/mpirun from OpenMPI can not be used in an interactive session (launched by sinteractive) after upgrading Pitzer and...

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5 years 5 months ago 1 year 1 month 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 3 months ago 10 years 10 months ago
Backup failures on ess filesystem Backups, filesystem Resolved

The backups on the /fs/ess filesystem are having issues running. There has not been a successful backup of this filesystem since Sunday, 08 August 2021.

OSC is working with the vendor to...

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5 years 5 days ago 5 years 3 days ago
Data on /fs/scratch is not accessible filesystem Resolved

Updated on 10:30 AM July 3rd, 2019:

Data on /fs/scratch is accessible now. We are working with the vendor to find the root cause and apologize for any inconvenience.  ...

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7 years 1 month ago 7 years 1 month ago
OSC Service Outage Notification Outage Resolved

We are currently experiencing outages affecting multiple services, including OnDemand (ondemand.osc.edu) and login nodes of HPC systems. Our team is actively investigating and working to resolve...

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1 year 2 months ago 1 year 2 months ago
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 6 months ago 9 years 6 months ago
MPI_THREAD_MULTIPLE is not supported with OpenMPI-HPCX 4.x Owens, Software Resolved

A threading code with MPI where MPI_Init_thread uses MPI_THREAD_MULTIPLE will fail because UCX from HPCX package is built without enabling multi-threading. UCX is the...

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3 years 5 months ago 1 year 3 months ago

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