Hi,
Actually, to get rid of a "stuck" job, you can simply:
qdel -Wforce jobid
Best regards,
- bill
Bill Nitzberg, PhD
General Manager, Veridian, PBS Products Dept.
> -----Original Message-----
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> Jenn Sturm
> Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 12:28 PM
> To: Bruce Becker
> Cc: Oscar-users List
> Subject: Re: [Oscar-users] PBS problem - jobs stuck in 'E' state
>
>
> It's a bug with PBS. To resolve, do the following (substitute
> appropriate paths as needed):
>
> # qterm -t quick <--shuts down pbs_server but
> leaves jobs running
> # cd $PBS_HOME/server_priv/jobs
> # rm jobid.* <--substitute the actual job
> ids that are in E state for
> jobid here
> # /usr/sbin/pbs_server <--restart the pbs server
>
> Deleting the job files for the jobs that are stuck in E will delete
> them from the queue once the pbs_server is restarted.
>
> -Jenn Sturm
> On Thursday, November 7, 2002, at 03:08 PM, Jeremy Enos wrote:
>
> > Sounds like a PBS config problem... I don't have any idea how
> > PBSPro-5.2.2 is configured though. Do you use epilogue
> scripts? Does
> > the job have output which would indicate whether or not it ran? Is
> > PBS built to use ssh or rsh?
> > thx-
> >
> > Jeremy
> >
> > At 01:54 PM 11/7/2002 +0200, Bruce Becker wrote:
> >> Hi OSCAR amigos
> >>
> >> We recently had to change our switch, while PBS jobs were running.
> >> These
> >> jobs went from state 'R' to state 'E' and have stayed there ever
> >> since.
> >> qdel gives the error:
> >>
> >> qdel: Request invalid for state of job 390.qgp3.phy.uct.ac.za
> >>
> >> Try as I might, I cannot get the jobs to release the job and become
> >> available for the queue again. I have tried to restart the pbs
> >> processes:
> >> pbs_server, pbs_mom, no luck. We are using OSCAR-1.4 with
> RedHat7.3
> >> and
> >> PBSPro-5.2.2
> >>
> >> Any clues ?
> >>
> >>
> >> Bruce Becker, PhD student - Department of Physics
> >> University of Cape Town
> >>
> >> Room 405, R.W. James Building, UCT
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