Re: [Condor-users] Job continually being run due to shadowexceptionerrors.

[Jaime Frey <jfrey@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Feb 16, 2006, at 7:48 PM, <Greg.Hitchen@xxxxxxxx>  
<Greg.Hitchen@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I modified the submit file as below:
>
> executable = egs.exe
> environment = XPERT_DIR=\\arthur-lu\montecarlo
> output     = D7EG9AB.log
> log        = D7EG9AB.condorlog
> arguments  = D7EG9AB.egs
> universe   = vanilla
> transfer_input_files = D7EG9AB.egs,auto_design7.pegsdat
> #transfer_input_files = egs.exe,D7EG9AB.egs,auto_design7.pegsdat
> #transfer_output_files = D7EG9AB.log,D7EG9AB.condorlog
> queue
>
> and the problem seems to go away. As you said, there is no need
> to explicitly include the default *.err, *.out, *.log or executable
> in the transfer statements. Removing them, as in the submit file
> above, seems to fix the problem. However I would have thought that
> explicity including them shouldn't? have caused any problems.

Good to hear.

> I guess what you're saying is by explicity including the log file
> it is created on the execute machine and then transferred back to
> the submit machine upon completion? And this is when the file transfer
> error was occurring, maybe because it was trying to transfer a file
> that no longer existed? or was trying to overwrite one that was
> already there on the submitting machine?

It failed because there never was a log file on the execute machine.  
The condor starter on the execute machine tried to open a file that  
didn't exist.

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