[HTCondor-users] HTCondor Personal Pool via Conda

[Matthew T West <M.T.West@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

While poking at the HTCondor install via Conda-forge today, I found that the personal pool startup faults out for lack of a condor_master.

>>> htcondor.version()
'$CondorVersion: 9.10.1 2022-07-19 $'
PersonalPool(local_dir=./personal-condor, state=INITIALIZED)
>>>
>>> pool.start()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/home/mtw212/mambaforge/envs/htcondor/lib/python3.10/site-packages/htcondor/personal.py", line 112, in wrapper
    return func(self, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/home/mtw212/mambaforge/envs/htcondor/lib/python3.10/site-packages/htcondor/personal.py", line 290, in start
    self._start_condor()
  File "/home/mtw212/mambaforge/envs/htcondor/lib/python3.10/site-packages/htcondor/personal.py", line 112, in wrapper
    return func(self, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/home/mtw212/mambaforge/envs/htcondor/lib/python3.10/site-packages/htcondor/personal.py", line 416, in _start_condor
    self.condor_master = subprocess.Popen(
  File "/home/mtw212/mambaforge/envs/htcondor/lib/python3.10/subprocess.py", line 969, in __init__
    self._execute_child(args, executable, preexec_fn, close_fds,
  File "/home/mtw212/mambaforge/envs/htcondor/lib/python3.10/subprocess.py", line 1845, in _execute_child
    raise child_exception_type(errno_num, err_msg, err_filename)
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'condor_master'

While I know this copy of the codebase isn't a priority, it would be nice to have working. If this would work as a Conda install, it would be another easy way to get people up and running with a local system without much headache. I would be happy to test out changes to make sure stuff works.

Cheers,
Matt

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Matthew T. West
DevOps & HPC SysAdmin
University of Exeter, Research IT
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