Re: [Condor-users] Strange toubles with Condor jobs submitted via globus

[Carl Lundstedt <clundst@xxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the response.

We may have found the troubles.  The home directory is on an NFS  
share and toggling USE_NFS = False in condor_config seems to have  
cleared up my troubles.

Carl
On Jan 23, 2006, at 11:45 AM, Steven Timm wrote:

> On Fri, 20 Jan 2006, Carl Lundstedt wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I don't know who to direct this question to.
> > I have a small cluster I'm building to learn all the grid  
> > middleware.  i have condor running on the machine and its WNs and  
> > I can submit jobs to the machine locally just fine and they  
> > complete.  HOWEVER
> > I installed VDT 0.4.0 to get the globus interfaces up and going  
> > and everything seems fine.
>
> For the uninitiated,this sounds very much like an Open Science
> Grid 0.4.0 install which in fact uses VDT 1.3.9a. (condor 6.7.13).
>
> Is Condor installed and started as root?  what uid is condor  
> running as?
> What NFS options is /home/uscms01 directory exported with on
> the server, and mounted as on the client?
> There's probably something subtle in the condor config such that
> the condor startd/starter doesn't have the right privs to
> access the directory.
>
> You might want to forward this question to osg- 
> general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> for the Community Support on Open Science Grid as well.
>
> Steve Timm
>
>
> > globus-run-job unlcompel1.unl.edu/jobmanager-fork /usr/bin/id
> > works just as it should
> > globus-run-job unlcompel1.unl.edu/jobmanager-condor /usr/bin/id
> > hangs.
> >
> > Looking through the logs the job gets placed in the queue as a  
> > local user (uscms01).
> > The Shadowlog shows that its failing because:
> > ERROR "Error from starter on valley003: Failed to open standard  
> > output file '/home/uscms01/.globus/job/unlcompel1.unl.edu/  
> > 24284.113795243/stdout':Permission denied (errno13)" at line 666  
> > in file pseudo_ops.C
> >
> > Clearly there's a read/write privledge problem, but I can't for  
> > the life of me figure it out.
> > The job creates that directory when it comes in.
> > When I  created the user uscms01 I passed the passwd, shadow and  
> > group files down to the worker nodes and when I log into the WNs  
> > via ssh uscms01 can do all the things I'd expect.
> >
> > Can someone give me some pointers?
> > Thanks,
> > Carl Lundstedt
> > UNL
>
> --
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> Steven C. Timm, Ph.D  (630) 840-8525  timm@xxxxxxxx  http:// 
> home.fnal.gov/~timm/
> Fermilab Computing Div/Core Support Services Dept./Scientific  
> Computing Section
> Assistant Group Leader, Farms and Clustered Systems Group
> Lead of Computing Farms Team

Carl Lundstedt
UNL

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