We are currently experiencing temporary instability on the Ascend login nodes.

A rolling reboot is in progress to address CVE-2026-23111 for all clusters, including Ascend, Cardinal, and Pitzer.

Known issues

Unresolved known issues

Known issue with an Unresolved Resolution state is an active problem under investigation; a temporary workaround may be available.

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 descending Description Posted Updated
ptrace Disabled Across OSC Systems Unresolved

ptrace has been disabled globally across all OSC systems to mitigate a newly identified Linux kernel vulnerability. If this security mitigation impacts your active research...

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3 weeks 6 days ago 3 weeks 6 days ago
STAR-CCM+ OpenMPI Job Failed due to Out-of-Memory Cardinal, Software Unresolved
(workaround)

After the scheduled downtime on May 12, 2026, STAR-CCM+ encounters out-of-memory errors when running OpenMPI jobs. A message...

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2 weeks 1 day ago 2 weeks 1 day ago
cuMemHostRegister Fails with CUDA_ERROR_INVALID_VALUE on RHEL 9.6 Ascend, Cardinal, GPU, system software Unresolved

After upgrading the operating system to RHEL 9.6 during the scheduled downtime on May 12, 2026,  applications utilizing UCX (...

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2 weeks 1 day ago 2 weeks 1 day ago
Temporary Login Node Instability on Ascend Ascend Unresolved

We are currently experiencing temporary instability on the Ascend login nodes, which may result in slow response times or unexpected session disconnects. Our team is actively...

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2 weeks 9 hours ago 2 weeks 9 hours ago
Rolling Reboot for Security Fix Unresolved

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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1 day 6 hours ago 8 hours 42 min ago
Armstrong inaccessible Resolved

Update: 2PM March 12th: Armstrong is back up and running.  Please notify oschelp@osc.edu of any lingering issues.


As of 10AM Thursday March 12th...

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11 years 3 months ago 11 years 3 months ago
Singularity: failed to pull a large Docker image Software Resolved
(workaround)

You might encounter an error while pulling a large Docker image:

[pitzer-login01]$ apptainer pull docker://qimme2/core
FATAL: Unable to pull docker://qiime2/core While...
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1 year 1 month ago 6 months 3 weeks ago
GPFS filesystem Errors on June 4 2019 filesystem Resolved

Update Posted on 04 June 2019 12:27 PM

We fixed the problem with both project and scratch filesystem and the service has been restored. Please contact ...

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7 years 1 week ago 7 years 1 week ago
weld predictor - slurm account error OnDemand, Software Resolved

Updated on 09/08/2022:

Users can choose the project code from a dropdown list to use. 

Original Post:

Users of weld predictor software in...

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3 years 10 months ago 3 years 9 months ago
Issues with VDI through OnDemand Batch Resolved

Update: Jan 23, 2017 3PM: this issue has been fixed. 

There is an issue with OSC OnDemand -> Desktops -> Virtual Desktop Interface (VDI) such that you get "qsub: submit error ..."...

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9 years 4 months ago 9 years 4 months ago

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