Re: [condor-users] Starter crashes, Shadow exception

[Alexander Klyubin <A.Kljubin@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Can you create the directory (e.g., /var/home/condor/execute/dir_2064) 
when under 'nobody' or 'condor' account?

Alexander Klyubin

Michael Schmuker wrote:
> Dear condor-users,
>
> I installed condor-6.6.1 on our computers, one with glibc 2.3 (the master) 
> and the others with glibc 2.2. Each machine has a condor user, with the 
> home dir on the local disk in /var/home/condor . The release directory 
> (glibc-2.2 version) is exported over nfs to the clients, and is mounted in 
> /var/home/condor/release .
>
> Now here's the problem: Jobs which are scheduled to run on the clients are 
> sent back to the master, creating this entry in the Job log:
> ....
> 007 (013.000.000) 03/30 20:07:47 Shadow exception!
>         Can no longer talk to condor_starter on execute machine 
> (192.168.185.14)
>         0  -  Run Bytes Sent By Job
>         0  -  Run Bytes Received By Job
> ...
>
> On the execute machine, the StarterLog says: 
>
> 3/30 20:07:47 couldn't create dir /var/home/condor/execute/dir_2064: 
> Permission
> denied
>
> (See below for context in StarterLog)
>
> /var/home/condor/execute is rwxrwxrwxt, and dir creation works if I do it 
> by hand. The condor daemons are started as root, as recommended.
>
> The funny thing is, that it _did_ work when I used one of the glibc 2.2 
> boxes as the master, and had the release directory on a local disk. But I 
> don't see why having the release dir on an nfs mount should prevent dirs 
> from being created on the local disk.
>
> So, did anybody already have a similar problem? Or can you give me a hint 
> what might be going wrong here?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Michael
>
>
> StarterLog:
> [...]
> 3/30 20:07:47 ******************************************************
> 3/30 20:07:47 ** condor_starter (CONDOR_STARTER) STARTING UP
> 3/30 20:07:47 ** $CondorVersion: 6.6.1 Feb  5 2004 $
> 3/30 20:07:47 ** $CondorPlatform: I386-LINUX-RH72 $
> 3/30 20:07:47 ** PID = 2064
> 3/30 20:07:47 ******************************************************
> 3/30 20:07:47 Using config file: /var/home/condor/condor_config
> 3/30 20:07:47 Using local config files: 
> /var/home/condor/condor_config.local
> 3/30 20:07:47 DaemonCore: Command Socket at <192.168.185.14:32941>
> 3/30 20:07:47 Done setting resource limits
> 3/30 20:07:47 Starter communicating with condor_shadow 
> <192.168.185.96:36570>
> 3/30 20:07:47 Submitting machine is "bommel.bcc.local"
> 3/30 20:07:47 couldn't create dir /var/home/condor/execute/dir_2064: 
> Permission
> denied
> 3/30 20:07:47 Failed to initialize JobInfoCommunicator, aborting
> 3/30 20:07:47 Unable to start job.
> 3/30 20:07:47 **** condor_starter (condor_STARTER) EXITING WITH STATUS 1
> [...]

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