Re: [HTCondor-users] Jobs held on submit node

[Todd Tannenbaum <tannenba@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2/3/2016 1:25 AM, Baumeier, B. wrote:
> Dear all:
>
> I have built a (still small) condor cluster and so far it works well.
> With one exception. When a job is supposed to start on the same machine
> it was submitted from, the job is being held because it cannot create
> output files. Which is weird because the jobs starting on other nodes
> can readily do that. All clients use the same config file which I
> attach. Any idea what I did wrong?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bjoern

That is a little strange.

Do your nodes use a shared filesystem, or are you expecting to have 
HTCondor transfer your job's files by specifying things like 
transfer_input_files in your submit description file?

My wild guess based on the above is this has something to do with 
HTCondor using file transfer when the job runs remotely but not using 
file transfer when it tries to start on the submit machine.  See the man 
page for condor_submit, specifically the entry for 
should_transfer_files.  Try changing your submit file to explicitly have
should_transfer_files = YES (or NO if you want to always use a shared 
filesystem) and see if that makes a difference.  My guess is it will at 
least result in the same behavior if the job runs local or remote.

hope the above helps,
Todd