Known issues

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Known Issues

Title Category Resolutionsort ascending Description Posted Updated
Stale File Handles on GPFS clients filesystem Resolved

OSC is experiencing some problems with the Project and Scratch filesystems that are resulting in some jobs seeing "stale file handles". We are investigating the problem and will provide updates as...

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7 years 7 months ago 7 years 7 months ago
Jobs reports 'excessive memory usage' message Owens, Pitzer Resolved

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6 years 5 months ago 4 years 3 months ago
Reboot of Public-Facing Systems for Security Fix Resolved

Updates on May 12:

All  public-facing systems have been rebooted. 

Original Post:

Due to a critical...

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3 months 1 week ago 2 months 4 weeks ago
Problems with MVAPICH2 Owens, Ruby, Software Resolved

Some MVAPICH2 MPI installations on Oakley, Ruby, and Owens, such as the default module mvapich2/2.2 as well as mvapich2/2.1, appear to have a bug that is triggered by certain programs.  The...

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10 years 6 months ago 4 years 3 months ago
HCOLL-related failures in OpenMPI applications Cardinal, Software Resolved
(workaround)

Several applications using OpenMPI, including HDF5, Boost, Rmpi, ORCA, and CP2K, may fail with errors such as

mca_coll_hcoll_module_enable() coll_hcol: mca_coll_hcoll_save_coll_handlers...
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1 year 9 months ago 1 year 3 months ago
Brief interruption of services for some users filesystem Resolved

Today, May 14 2013, at 12:45PM we will be temporarily removing one of the home directory servers from service to address some reliability issues. Users with home...

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13 years 3 months ago 13 years 3 months ago
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 8 months ago
ondemand gpu request error Nov 2021 Batch, OnDemand, Pitzer Resolved

When requesting an interactive session in ondemand and requesting gpu resources, users may see an error similar similar to  "sbatch: error: Invalid generic resource (gres) specification"

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4 years 8 months ago 4 years 8 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 4 months ago 4 years 8 months ago
MPI fails with UCX 1.18 Software Resolved
(workaround)

After the downtime on August 19, 2025, users may encounter UCX errors such as:

UCX ERROR no active messages transport to <no debug data>: self/memory -...
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11 months 3 weeks ago 10 months 1 week ago

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