Re: [Condor-users] condor_startd wont run

[Eric Medina <emedina@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Greg Thain wrote:

> > hi there! I'm having problems with my condor installation. Im running 
> > centOS 3, which is basically RHEL3, on a p4 machine. I configured the 
> > machine to be an execute machine and the installation went smoothly. 
> >    
>
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> > Now when I run condor_master, I noticed that it was not starting the 
> > condor_startd daemon. When I run the daemon manually, it returned the ff 
> > error message:
> >       gij: unrecognized option -- `-classpath'
> >      Try `gij --help' for more information.
> >    
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> In general, if you have a problem starting the startd, the best place to 
> start debugging it is by looking at the StartLog on the execute machine 
> in question.  Running the startd by hand is a good idea, but sometimes, 
> there are differences in the "by hand" environment, and the one it is 
> booted from.  This can lead to confusion in debugging the real problem.
> You may need to turn on D_FULLDEBUG to see enough log output.
>
> However, in this case, it looks like you are on to a real problem:  
> When the startd initializes, it runs a small Java program to figure 
> out several attributes about Java to advertise.  It looks like java
> is misconfigured on your machine.  If you run java -classpath . HelloWorld
> do you still get the error about classpath?
>
> If you don't want to run Java universe jobs, you can simply leave the 
> JAVA atttribute blank in your condor_config file.  Otherwise, you will 
> need to install a Java that understands the -classpath option and handles 
> it correctly.
>
> -greg
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i figured it out! im running the wrong java version. I was running java 
3.2.3 which doesnt have a classpath option. Version 3.3.2 fixed that.
Thanks anyway.

eric