[Condor-users] standard universe jobs won't start but vanilla are OK

["Smith, Ian" <I.C.Smith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've been banging my head against the wall for a couple for days
on the problem below so hopefully someone on the list may be able to help ...

I'm trying to run a very simple test job on a Debian based VM (under 
colinux) - in fact it's just a shell script. If I submit it
as a vanilla universe job then everything is fine but as a
standard universe job it seems to match OK on the central manager
but then the startd on the execute host seems to reject it and gives
this message:

Job Requirements check failed!

Bearing that in mind I've set STARTD_DEBUG to D_JOB to try and compare
the two jobs. For the vanilla universe I see this:

Requirements = ( ( Arch == "Intel" ) && ( OpSys == "LINUX" ) ) && ( TARGET.Disk >= DiskUsage ) && ( ( TARGET.Memory * 1024 ) >= ImageSize ) && ( ( RequestMemory * 1024 ) >= ImageSize ) && ( TARGET.HasFileTransfer)

and for the standard universe this

Requirements = ( ( Arch == "Intel" ) && ( OpSys == "LINUX" ) ) && ( ( CkptArch == TARGET.Arch ) || ( CkptArch =?= undefined ) ) && ( ( CkptOpSys == TARGET.OpSys ) || ( CkptOpSys =?= undefined ) ) && ( TARGET.Disk >= DiskUsage ) && ( ( TARGET.Memory * 1024 ) >= ImageSize ) && ( ( RequestMemory * 1024 ) >= ImageSize )

So my guess is that it's something to do with CkptArch/CkptOpSys ??? 

The machine requirements are the same in both cases viz:

IsValidCheckpointPlatform = ( ( ( TARGET.JobUniverse == 1 ) == false ) || ( ( MY.CheckpointPlatform =!= undefined ) && ( ( TARGET.LastCheckpointPlatform =?= MY.CheckpointPlatform ) || ( TARGET.NumCkpts == 0 ) ) ) )
Requirements = ( START ) && ( IsValidCheckpointPlatform )

In the job classad I've set 

+WantCheckpoint = false

but I get the same problem regardless of whether this is explicity set or not.

The combined central manager / submit host is a Scientific Linux 6.1 X84_64 system if
that's relevant.

Any pointers or vague vague hints even would be most appreciated as I've totally
run out of ideas.

cheers,

-ian.

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Dr Ian C. Smith,
Advanced Research Computing,
University of Liverpool UK.