[Condor-users] Privileges problems on family edition of Windows Vista/7?

[Sukender <suky0001@xxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone,

1. It seems I can't run Condor properly on a Family edition of Windows (Vista/Seven): Condor daemons complain about SYSTEM privileges.
Did anyone successfully ran Condor on such a configuration? If so, how?

2. I tried the same on a Windows Server 2008 R2. There is no privileges issues anymore, but jobs are never run and logs did not tell me much about the problem.
Can anyone help ?

Details follow...


Versions tested: 7.7.2 and 7.6.4
Architecture : X86_64

I just tried to setup a personal Condor on a Windows 7 machine, and it systematically fails for some critical operations:
 - "condor_store_cred add" always fail, complaining about privileges ("Operation failed. Target daemon is not running as SYSTEM.")
 - Jobs (vanilla) stay forever in the queue ("Request has not yet been considered by the matchmaker.")
The ShadowLog also complaints about permissions ("init_user_ids: failed because user switching is disabled", see below).
Of course, I double checked that the MSI installer properly set the service as using "LOCAL SYSTEM" user... and of course, I tried to delete/reinstall multiple times.

What is very strange is that personal Condor worked perfectly on Windows XP (Pro, SP3, and after calling "condor_store_cred add").

I also tried to setup a Condor manager on a Windows Server 2008 R2. It works a bit better, but that's not 100%:
 - Pool is created, and call to "condor_store_cred add" succeeded (ShadowLog is ok).
 - My "Windows 7 Family" machine has been reconfigured to join the pool and is visible when typing "condor_status"
 - Neither the "Windows Server" nor the "Windows 7" can submit jobs successfully. They stay in the queue forever (but maybe for different reasons). "-analyze" says "Reject your job because of their own requirements".
    - "Windows 7" 's ShadowLog still says "init_user_ids: failed because user switching is disabled" (which seems coherent!)
    - "Windows Server" 's ShadowLog is ok, but SchedLog shows strange things about job submitted from the other machine ("condor_read() failed..." "Response problem from startd when requesting claim..." "Failed to send REQUEST_CLAIM..."), and nothing about the job submitted locally.

My ShadowLog (Windows 7 machine), complaining about privileges:
11/15/11 11:44:58 (6.0) (5588): init_user_ids: failed because user switching is disabled
11/15/11 11:44:58 (6.0) (5588): init_user_ids() failed as user Sukender
11/15/11 11:44:58 (6.0) (5588): init_user_ids: failed because user switching is disabled
11/15/11 11:44:58 (6.0) (5588): WriteUserLog::initialize: init_user_ids() failed!
11/15/11 11:44:58 (6.0) (5588): Failed to initialize user log to C:/Temp\condor_job_test.log
11/15/11 11:44:58 (6.0) (5588): Job 6.0 going into Hold state (code 22,0): Failed to initialize user log to C:/Temp\condor_job_test.log
11/15/11 11:44:58 (6.0) (5588): RemoteResource::killStarter(): DCStartd object NULL!
11/15/11 11:44:59 (6.0) (5588): SetEffectiveOwner(Sukender) failed with errno=13: Permission denied.
11/15/11 11:44:59 (6.0) (5588): Failed to update job queue!
11/15/11 11:44:59 (6.0) (5588): ERROR "Failed to initialize user log to C:/Temp\condor_job_test.log" at line 855 in file c:\condor\execute\dir_3188\userdir\src\condor_shadow.v6.1\baseshadow.cpp

Cheers,

Sukender