Known issues

Unresolved known issues

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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
GPFS errors on compute nodes filesystem Resolved

We've seen an increase in transient problems that result in compute nodes losing access to the GPFS file systems for ~5 minutes.

Any jobs running on these nodes accessing files on GPFS may... Read more

4 years 6 months ago 3 years 6 months ago
"pbsdcp" is not working on Oakley Resolved

12:35PM 5/24/2017 Update: pbsdcp   has been fixed on Oakley.

pbsdcp   is not working on Oakley and returns a missing library error as below:... Read more

8 years 3 weeks ago 8 years 3 weeks ago
OnDemand Apps are not working OnDemand, Outage Resolved

Apps through OnDemand (ondemand.osc.edu) can't be launched successfully. You will see the error like:


Failed to submit session with the following error:
sbatch: error: 'pitzer... Read more

4 years 3 weeks ago 4 years 3 weeks ago
my.osc.edu logins failing Account Management Resolved

Logins to my.osc.edu are failing. This is unrelated to our InfiniBand issue; a router change at OARnet is the believed cause. They are working on re-establishing the necessary routing.

10 years 10 months ago 10 years 10 months ago
STAR error bgzf_open: Assertion failed Cardinal, Software Resolved
(workaround)

You may encounter errors that look similar to these when running STAR 2.7.10b:

STAR: bgzf.c:158: bgzf_open: Assertion `compressBound(0xff00) < 0x10000' failed.

Cause... Read more

1 month 3 days ago 3 weeks 4 hours ago
LAMMPS ppn=40 GPU problem on Pitzer Pitzer, Software Resolved

On Pitzer both LAMMPS 22Aug18 and 5Jun19 gpu jobs with ppn=40 hang immediately after lammps begins execution.  A workaround is to use ppn=39.

6 years 7 months ago 5 years 5 months ago
Some backups of ESS project directories are missed Resolved

Backups of ESS project directories (/fs/ess) are missed on August 10 and 13, 2022. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Please contact OSC Help if you... Read more

2 years 10 months ago 2 years 10 months ago
Scheduling temporarily suspended on Oakley Batch Resolved

We are migrating the batch scheduler on Oakley to a new virtual machine. In order to accomplish this, the scheduler will be temporarily offline for about four hours on December 16th. Running jobs... Read more

9 years 6 months ago 9 years 6 months ago
Rolling reboot of Owens and Pitzer starting from February 3, 2020 login, Owens, Pitzer Resolved

2:11 PM 2/17/2020 Update:

The rolling reboot of Owens has been completed.

12:41 PM 2/10/2020 Update:

The rolling reboot of Pitzer has been... Read more

5 years 4 months ago 5 years 4 months ago
Sign Up reCAPTCHA Error Resolved

If you fail to hit the reCAPTCHA and try to submit the form, you will receive an error regarding the reCAPTCHA.

If you hit the reCAPTCHA and re-submit, the error will remain.

... Read more

5 years 10 months ago 5 years 7 months ago

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