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Workspace Spectrum LSF
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Created on Aug 3, 2016

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[clearcase] bjobs and bsub should provide reason why job did not start on exec host

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We use Platform LSF 9.1 in conjunction with ClearCase. In situations where CC is not working on the execution host, LSF provides a misleading message (a bug) as well as insufficient information to determine that the execution host has a problem. Specifically, this happens:

One of our LSF users encountered the following error:
Job <22701> is submitted to queue .
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Notice in the message above that no information is provided back to the user. Further, when we look at the bjobs and bhist output, there is similarly no information as to the failure:

Job <22701>, User , Project , Interactive mode, Command Tue Jul 26 07:46:43: Submitted from host , to Queue , CWD , Requested Resources ; Tue Jul 26 07:46:44:
Dispatched 1 Task(s) on Host(s) , Allocated 1 Slot(s) on Host(s) , Effective RES_REQ ;
Tue Jul 26 07:46:44:
Starting (Pid 28820); Tue Jul 26 07:46:44: Exited with exit code 1.
The CPU time used is 0.1 seconds;
Tue Jul 26 07:46:44: Completed ;

The underlying problem on the execution host was MVFS was not properly functioning. This was verified by running a command on the remote host manually:

sjc-hw-1086:1002> cleartool setview sbishai_lsq_synreg_20160726_152349_0.view
cleartool: Warning: The view cannot be started because the MVFS is not installed.

The "enhancement" request I am making is for LSF to provide actionable information to the user from one or more of the bsub launch, the bjobs -l, or the bhist -l output.

  • Guest
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    |     May 15, 2017

    Uploaded to fix center.
    For 9.1.3
    Fix Central URL:
    http://www-933.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/selectFixes?parent=Platform%2BComputing&product=ibm/Other+software/Platform+LSF&release=All&platform=All&function=fixId&fixids=lsf-9.1.3-build450524&includeSupersedes=0

    Fix ID: lsf-9.1.3-build450524

    For 10.1
    Fix Central URL:
    http://www-933.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/selectFixes?parent=Platform%2BComputing&product=ibm/Other+software/IBM+Spectrum+LSF&release=All&platform=All&function=fixId&fixids=lsf-10.1-build451690&includeSupersedes=0

    Fix ID: lsf-10.1-build451690

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     May 12, 2017

    This RFE's Headline was changed after submission to reflect the headline of an internal request we were already considering, but will now track here.

  • Guest
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    |     Aug 4, 2016

    Creating a new RFE based on Community RFE #92576 in product Platform LSF.

  • Guest
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    |     Aug 3, 2016

    Usually "Terminated while pending" indicates LSF job environment setup failure. LSF job environment setup is done through sbatchd and res processes, thus sbatchd and res log files are the places to look for possible cause. Since LSF ClearCase integration also involve daemons.wrap, daemons.wrap log file may also reveal something.

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