Re: [HTCondor-users] question about condor_ssh_to_job behavior

[Greg Thain <gthain@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/4/22 08:06, Benoit Roland wrote:

>       
>       Dear all,
>       
>       we are running the HTCondor EP daemons in an apptainer container
>       and submitting jobs running themselves in a container.
>       
>       I would like to ask you some questions about the behavior of
>       condor_ssh_to_job.
>       
>       1) At the beginning of the session, I got the following message.
>       
>       Welcome to slot1@test-condor@c4p-login-dev!
>       Your condor job is running with pid(s) 67581.
>       Cannot chdir to /var/lib/condor/execute/dir_67539: No such
>       file or directory
>       Singularity>
>       
>       Is the message "Cannot chdir to /var/lib/condor/execute/dir_67539:
>       No such file or directory" expected?

Hi Benoit:

This is a bug in HTCondor caused by the combination of singularity, setting SINGULARITY_TARGET_DIR and condor_ssh_to_job.  Please verify that you do have SINGULARITY_TARGET_DIR set to something?  I'll put a fix in the next stable series of HTCondor.

-greg