Hello,<div><br></div><div>Today, I saw this error in a simple catsn script running from engage submit host to OSG via GWMS. </div><div><br></div><div>The run involved 98 tasks out of which 2 failed with the error message: </div>
<div><br></div><div><div>Caused by: org.globus.cog.karajan.workflow.KarajanRuntimeException: Could not convert value to boolean: null</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">       </span>at org.globus.cog.karajan.util.TypeUtil.toBoolean(TypeUtil.java:127)</div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">      </span>at org.griphyn.vdl.karajan.lib.Mark.function(Mark.java:30)</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">   </span>at org.griphyn.vdl.karajan.lib.VDLFunction.post(VDLFunction.java:62)</div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">      </span>at org.globus.cog.karajan.workflow.nodes.AbstractSequentialWithArguments.completed(AbstractSequentialWithArguments.java:194)</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>at org.globus.cog.karajan.workflow.nodes.FlowNode.complete(FlowNode.java:214)</div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">      </span>at org.globus.cog.karajan.workflow.nodes.FlowContainer.post(FlowContainer.java:58)</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">   </span>at org.globus.cog.karajan.workflow.nodes.functions.AbstractFunction.post(AbstractFunction.java:28)</div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">      </span>at org.globus.cog.karajan.workflow.nodes.Sequential.startNext(Sequential.java:29)</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">    </span>at org.globus.cog.karajan.workflow.nodes.Sequential.executeChildren(Sequential.java:20)</div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">      </span>at org.globus.cog.karajan.workflow.nodes.FlowContainer.execute(FlowContainer.java:63)</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">        </span>at org.globus.cog.karajan.workflow.nodes.FlowNode.restart(FlowNode.java:139)</div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">      </span>at org.globus.cog.karajan.workflow.nodes.FlowNode.start(FlowNode.java:197)</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">   </span>at org.globus.cog.karajan.workflow.FlowElementWrapper.start(FlowElementWrapper.java:227)</div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">      </span>at org.globus.cog.karajan.workflow.events.EventBus.start(EventBus.java:104)</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">  </span>at org.globus.cog.karajan.workflow.events.EventTargetPair.run(EventTargetPair.java:40)</div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">      </span>at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:441)</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">   </span>at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:303)</div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">      </span>at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:138)</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">  </span>at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886)</div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">      </span>at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908)</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">   </span>at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)</div>
</div><div><br></div><div>This does not happen in each run. Out of 4 such runs that I tried, it happened in one run. <br clear="all"><div><br></div><div>The complete log is here:  <a href="http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~ketan/catsn-20111202-1627-0e9196p8.log">http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~ketan/catsn-20111202-1627-0e9196p8.log</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>In the log, I see a couple of "Broken pipe" messages but am not sure if the two are related in any ways.</div><div><br></div><div>I had 50 workers running. </div><div><br></div><div>The coaster service log is:  <a href="http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~ketan/swift.log">http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~ketan/swift.log</a></div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div>-- <br>Ketan<br><br><br>
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