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

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A known issue with Resolved Resolution state has been corrected.

Known Issues

Title Category Resolutionsort descending Description Posted Updated
Problems with the nightly backup on ess filesystem Backups Resolved

We are having problems with the nightly backup on ess filesystem, causing missing backups of the /fs/ess file system since Monday, August 9th. Backups of home directory and /fs/project are normal... Read more

3 years 1 month ago 3 years 1 month ago
Error when downloading SRA data on computing nodes Owens, Pitzer, Software Resolved
(workaround)

NCBI blocks any connection from computing nodes because they are behind firewalls. Thus OSC users cannot use SRA tools to download data "on-the-fly" at runtime on computing nodes, e.g. 'fastq-dump... Read more

5 years 2 months ago 2 years 5 months ago
VASP job with Out-of-Memory crashes compute node(s) Batch, Owens, Software Resolved
(workaround)

... Read more

7 years 5 months ago 2 years 5 months ago
OnDemand 2.1 - Issue downloading large directories OnDemand Resolved

There is an issue with OnDemand or Awesim after the new release when downloading directories that are large in size.

Users may encouter issues downloading large directories. Staff are... Read more

1 year 7 months ago 1 year 7 months ago
Emergency InfiniBand Shutdown (All systems) Network Resolved

We have returned to service. It appears that we have resolved the networking issues enough to allow jobs to run safely. We will continue working with our vendors to fix any remaining hardware... Read more

10 years 2 months ago 10 years 2 months ago
cuda-gdb segmentation fault on startup Owens, Pitzer, Software Resolved

The CUDA debugger, cuda-gdb, can raise a segmentation fault immediately upon execution.  A workaround before executing cuda-gdb is to unload the xalt module, e.g.: 

module unload... Read more          
4 years 5 months ago 2 years 6 months ago
LS-DYNA License problems on all clusters Software Resolved

We are experiencing problems with the LS-DYNA license server. We will resume working on restoring access to this software on October 24th, 2018.

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It has been fixed and working... Read more

5 years 11 months ago 5 years 11 months ago
A partial-node MPI job failed to start using Intel MPI mpiexec Owens, Pitzer, Software Resolved
(workaround)

A partial-node MPI job may fail to start using mpiexec from intelmpi/2019.3 and intelmpi/2019.7 with error messages like

[mpiexec@o0439.ten.osc.... Read more          
3 years 11 months ago 2 years 6 months ago
Client Portal: Intermittent Outages Account Management, Account/Shell, Login Problems, Outage Resolved

We are experiencing infrastructure issue on the servers that host the Client Portal (my.osc.edu).

Outages are intermittent.

We apologize for the... Read more

5 years 8 months ago 5 years 3 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. We... Read more
8 years 2 months ago 7 years 2 weeks ago

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