[torqueusers] Torque and Mac OS X 10.5.7

[Glen Beane]

the problem (along with a work around)  of jobs getting stuck in the E
state on OS X 10.5 is documented in the TORQUE INSTALL file under OS
NOTES.



On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 11:21 AM, Gijsbert
Wiesenekker<gijsbert.wiesenekker at gmail.com> wrote:
> FYI,
>
> I built torque 2.4.0b1 using the default configure options on an iMac
> running Mac OS X 10.5.7.
> Jobs ran succesfully but some (not all) got stuck in the E state.
>
> /var/log/system.log showed the errors:
> pbs_mom: error for object non-aligned pointer being freed (multiple times)
> Followed by:
> pbs_mom: sys_copy, command '/bin/cp -rp ^C (path to output file)' failed
> with status=1
> pbs_mom: req_cpyfile, Unable to copy file ^C to (path to output file)
>
> /Library/Logs/Crashreporter/pbs_mom_(timestamp).crash showed the error:
>
> Process:         pbs_mom
> Path:            /usr/local/sbin/pbs_mom
> Identifier:      pbs_mom
> Code Type:       X86 (Native)
> Parent Process:  pbs_mom
> Thread 0 Crashed:
> 0   libSystem.B.dylib                   0x95d7b5a5 strncat + 31
> 1   pbs_mom                             0x000205f6 req_cpyfile + 2854
> (requests.c:3547)
> 2   pbs_mom                             0x00030487 process_request + 487
> (process_request.c:647)
> 3   libtorque.2.dylib                   0x000a00a5 wait_request + 293
> (net_server.c:479)
> 4   pbs_mom                             0x00017bb2 main_loop + 290
> (mom_main.c:7828)
> 5   pbs_mom                             0x00017fe5 main + 101
> (mom_main.c:7931)
> 6   pbs_mom                             0x00002506 start + 54
>
> To troubleshoot this I reinstalled torque using
> CFLAGS=-g ./configure
> make
> make install
>
> and now everything seems to work fine, so you can try this as a
> workaround if you have the same error.
>
> Regards,
> Gijsbert
>
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