Re: [HTCondor-users] .update.ad problems after upgrade.

[Todd L Miller <tlmiller@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 07/20/20 14:56:07 (pid:10322) Failed to open '.update.ad' to read update
> ad: No such file or directory (2).

	Problems with .update.ad will almost never cause problems for 
HTCondor directly, but sometimes be an indication of other issues.  If I 
recall correctly, the starter will check the .update.ad just after the job 
exits (to make sure the starter catches the last update about GPU usage 
from the startd).

> From what I've seen, this file should be created in /var/condor/execute,

	It should be created in the job's sandbox, which will be a 
subdirectory of the HTCondor configuration variable EXECUTE, IIRC.  The 
directory should probably be owned by group condor as well as user condor, 
but I don't know if that will matter.

> having this problem upon upgrade, so at this point I'm not positive this
> IS a problem? Is it THE problem that's causing these jobs to fail? What
> the heck can I do to diagnose/resolve this issue?

	Look further back into the starter log; what's causing the job to 
fail?  Is the job actually starting successfully?  If you can't find 
anything, consider setting STARTER_DEBUG = D_FULLDEBUG in the config to 
make the log more (exceedingly) verbose.

- ToddM