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
Grafana is not available since Dec 14 Downtime Resolved

Grafana (grafana.osc.edu) is not available since Dec 14 Downtime. We will fix it soon.

If you have any questions, please contact OSC Help

4 years 8 months ago 4 years 8 months ago
Some issues remain after downtime Login Problems, Operations, Outage Resolved

15 July 2016, 5:00PM update: some additional issues we are facing

  • We are experiencing periodic hangs of the GPFS client file system software used with the new storage environment. ...
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10 years 1 month ago 8 years 11 months ago
Scratch filesystem Errors on October 1st, 2019 filesystem Resolved

Updated on 12:40 PM Oct 1st, 2019: 

OSC had experienced an unexpected problem with the Scratch filesystem that gives errors "No space left on device" on all clusters since...

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6 years 11 months ago 6 years 11 months ago
Performance issues with MVAPICH2 on Cardinal Cardinal, Software Resolved
(workaround)

We have observed that several applications built with MVAPICH2, including Quantum ESPRESSO 7.4.1, HDF5, and OpenFOAM...

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12 months 1 day ago 9 months 2 weeks ago
'quota' command does not work on GPFS system software Resolved

The 'quota' command does not provide any information about file quotas on the GPFS filesystem. Until we fix this issue, please look at your file system usage in the message printed when you log in...

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13 years 2 weeks ago 10 years 1 month ago
Rolling reboot of Ascend, Owens and Pitzer starting from Oct 25 2023 Owens, Pitzer Resolved

Update on Nov 8 2023:

Rolling reboots of all clusters are completed. 

Update on Nov 3 2023:

Rolling reboots of Ascend and Pitzer clusters...

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2 years 10 months ago 2 years 10 months ago
DOWNTIME EXTENDED UNTIL MORNING OF 12/13/17 Resolved

We have extended the 12/12/2017 downtime until 7AM on 12/13/17 to complete filesystem maintenance that has taken longer than expected.

8 years 9 months ago 8 years 9 months ago
my.osc.edu inaccessible client portal Resolved

OSC client portal is having intermittent issues and may be inaccessible.

There is ongoing work being done to resolve this problem.

Resolution:...

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6 years 5 days ago 6 years 5 days 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 6 months ago 1 year 2 months ago
Intermittent DNS issues Resolved

3/9/15 Update: The DNS issues have been resolved.  In total, the following services may have been affected by the DNS issues:

  • Logging in / Connecting out to...
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11 years 6 months ago 11 years 6 months ago

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