[Swift-devel] Coasters and std's on ranger

[skenny at uchicago.edu]

---- Original message ----
>Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:21:57 -0500
>From: Mihael Hategan <hategan at mcs.anl.gov>  
>Subject: Re: [Swift-devel] Coasters and std's on ranger  
>To: skenny at uchicago.edu
>Cc: swift-devel <swift-devel at ci.uchicago.edu>
>
>On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 13:22 -0500, skenny at uchicago.edu wrote:
>> darn...
>> 
>> Execution failed:
>>         Exception in RInvoke:
>> Arguments: [scripts/4reg_dummy.R,
>> matrices/4_reg/network1/gestspeech.cov, 29, 0.5, speech]
>> Host: RANGER
>> Directory:
>> 4reg_speech-20090714-1309-b650zi68/jobs/3/RInvoke-351ksndj
>> stderr.txt:
>> 
>> stdout.txt:
>> 
>> ----
>> 
>> Caused by:
>>         Block task failed: 0714-090151-000000Block task ended
>> prematurely
>> 
>> Cleaning up...
>> Shutting down service at https://129.114.50.163:38571
>> 
>> i can file a bug report with TG if need be, but i'm not quite
>> sure the best thing to tell them (?) also, i'm wondering how
>> coasters was previously able to work around this bug? 
>
>By redirecting stdout+stderr to memory, but that causes the
"job manager
>could not stage out a file" problem.

actually, i meant (way back when this worked for me :) prior
to any of the redirection (circa swift stable release
0.8ish)...but perhaps that's assuming the sge bug existed then
as well...