Known issues

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Known Issues

Title Category Resolutionsort descending Description Posted Updated
OnDemand with Safari Web Services Resolved

Currently, if you have popups blocked in Safari, some services in OSC OnDemand (most notably the HPC terminal) will silently fail to work. We are working on a solution, as well as a workaround for...

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12 years 4 months ago 10 years 11 months ago
ACEs of a file in user's home directory will be lost using vim or cp filesystem Resolved

Access Control Entries (ACEs) of a file in the user's home directory will be lost if the file is modified using vim.  In addition, the newly created file using the cp...

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8 years 1 month ago 8 years 1 month 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
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 2 days ago 3 months 4 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 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 4 months ago 10 years 11 months 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 2 months ago 7 years 2 months 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
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
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 7 months ago 9 years 7 months ago

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