[Condor-users] "unknown universe 9"

[Steven Timm <timm@xxxxxxxx>]

I am seeing the repeated messages in my SchedLog:

[root@fngp-osg log]# grep 20056 SchedLog
1/24 14:58:16 (pid:20056) ERROR: unknown universe (9) in jobIsSandboxed()
1/24 14:58:16 (pid:20056) Attempting to chown 
'/local/stage1/condor/spool/cluster57339.proc0.subproc0', but it doesn't 
appear to exist.
1/24 14:58:16 (pid:20056) Error: Unable to chown 
'/local/stage1/condor/spool/cluster57339.proc0.subproc0' from 11420 to 
4716.3302
1/24 14:58:16 (pid:20056) (57339.0) Failed to chown 
/local/stage1/condor/spool/cluster57339.proc0.subproc0 from 11420 to 
4716.3302.  User may run into permissions problems when fetching sandbox.


Sure enough, according to my condor_config, universe 9 is unknown.
but how is it that a user on my cluster using the same condor_config
is able to submit a job using it, in the first place.
Stranger yet, how does the job actually manage to run?!  Because it does.
(The job appears to be a globus/gt2 job based on other information).

It is pretty clear that the user's submit file has universe = globus
in the submit file.

Should I care about the unknown universe error, or just let it go?

Steve Timm

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