Re: [HTCondor-users] Error on expressions that don't match

[Brian Bockelman <bbockelm@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Melo,

IIRC, the htcondor internals don't distinguish between errors and no matching jobs.

What happens if you do condor_qedit manually?

Brian

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On Aug 15, 2013, at 2:07 PM, Andrew Melo <andrew.m.melo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I'm attempting to use the python bindings, and I'm hitting a bit of a flaw. If I do something like this:
> 
> schedd.edit(rootConst, "HoldReason", "\"%s\"" % self.JOB_RESTART_HOLD_REASON)
> 
> but, the constraint doesn't match any jobs, the expression throws:
> 
> RuntimeError: Unable to edit jobs matching constraint
> 
> I can run condor_q -constraint manually on the command line, and running the same line with a slightly different constraint (which matches jobs) works. Am I right to assume that condor is complaining because I told it to edit a null list of jobs? If so, is there a way to change that behavior?
> 
> Thanks,
> Andrew
> 
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