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

[Mihael Hategan]

On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 16:57 -0500, skenny at uchicago.edu wrote:
> ---- 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...

Yes, it did. But due to the way the coasters worked at the time, the
error was ignored. I can make it such that this is the case again.