UMD-1 UMD-1.5.0

UMD 1.5.0 : Additional information for provided products

While undergoing the EGI Software Provisioning process, some installation issues and known problems were detected and documented. This document provides the same information, in one single place, where site admins may learn about the provided software prior to installation or, with later updates to UMD -1, upgrading their systems.

Each section that follows will be linked by the relevant sections provided in the EGI Software Repository for this release of UMD.

emi.lb.sl5.x86_64

• Additional Details:
  • Detailed release notes: EMI LB 3.10 release notes
• Installation Notes: No issues found during EGI's Software Provisioning.
• Known Issues: No issues found during EGI's Software Provisioning.
• Version: 3.10

emi.mpi.sl5.x86_64

• Additional Details:
  • Detailed release notes: EMI MPI 1.2.0 release notes
• Installation Notes:
  • It’s important to put –n MPI_CE in first position otherwise Nagios doesn’t check MPI.
• Known Issues:
  • For Torque/Maui batch system: Maui versions prior to 3.3.4 do not allocate correctly multiprocessor jobs: https://ggus.eu/ws/ticket_info.php?ticket=57828 this issue only affects old maui versions and is outside the scope of this update.
    • Workaround: To solve MAUI issues site admins must install a newer version (not available at EPEL yet). There is currently a build of MAUI 3.3.4 at http://rpm.hellasgrid.gr/mash/centos5-maui/ more info at: https://svnweb.cern.ch/trac/maui and MPI-start wiki page and MPI User Support FAQ
  • MPI configuration with Torque + Maui on CreamCE fails when requesting more than one node: https://ggus.eu/tech/ticket_show.php?ticket=78348
    • Workaround: The submit filter assumes that your Worker Nodes are correctly configured to publish in their status the ncpus variable with the number of available slots. If that's not true in your case, you may edit the file /var/torque/submit_filter in line 71 to fit your pbsnodes output. An example for using the np value is commented out in the file. More info Yaim MPI configuration
• Version: 1.2.0

emi.cream.sl5.x86_64

• Additional Details:
  • New apel_parser 1.0.1 plugin: Includes several bug fixes for GE and LSF batch systems. EMI APEL Parser 1.0.1 release notes
  • New blah 1.16.4: New blah update introduces support for grid engine and a memory leak fixes for Torque and LSF. EMI blah 1.16.4 release notes
  • New CEMON 1.13.3: EMI CEMON 1.13.3 release notes
  • Detailed release notes: EMI CREAM-CE 1.13.3 release notes
• LRMS Plugins:
  • GE-utils 1.0.0: New GE batch system support. The new release includes many bug fixes. EMI GE-utils 1.0.0 release notes
• Installation Notes:
  • yaim plugin for CREAM CE does not execute a check function due to name mismatch: https://ggus.eu/tech/ticket_show.php?ticket=76966
• Known Issues:
  • If you hit this problem - CREAMCE authentication problem: https://ggus.eu/tech/ticket_show.php?ticket=76965
    • Put in the LSC file the following 2 variants: with emailAddress= and with Email=.
  • yaim plugin for CREAM with GE incorrectly creates dynamic wrapper : https://ggus.eu/ws/ticket_info.php?ticket=76961.
    • Workaround: include into /var/lib/bdii/gip/plugin/glite-info-dynamic-scheduler-wrapper this line:

export PYTHONPATH=/usr/lib/python

• Version: 1.13.3

emi.dpm.sl5.x86_64

• Additional Details:
  • Detailed release notes: EMI DPM 1.8.2 release notes
• Installation Notes: No issues found during EGI's Software Provisioning.
• Known Issues: No issues found during EGI's Software Provisioning.
• Version: 1.8.2

emi.lfc_mysql.sl5.x86_64

• Additional Details:
  • Detailed release notes: EMI LFC_mysql release notes
• Installation Notes: No issues found during EGI's Software Provisioning.
• Known Issues: No issues found during EGI's Software Provisioning.
• Version: 1.8.2

emi.storm.sl5.x86_64

• Additional Details:
  • Detailed release notes: EMI StoRM 1.8.1 release notes
• Installation Notes: No issues found during EGI's Software Provisioning.
• Known Issues:
  • Storm backend does not uses the database password loaded from its configuration file. StoRM myql passwd is hardwired to "storm": https://ggus.eu/tech/ticket_show.php?ticket=77970
    • Workaround - set the STORM_DB_USER=storm in your site-info.def. This bug is solved in the next release of storm
• Version: 1.8.1

emi.wms.sl5.x86_64

• Additional Details:
  • Detailed release notes: EMI WMS 3.3.4 release notes
• Installation Notes:
• Known Issues:: Several new issues have been discovered recently in production - some are described here https://documents.egi.eu/secure/RetrieveFile?docid=980&version=1&filename=WMS_issues.pdf
  • Submitted DAG jobs never end (it keeps in waiting status with the reason: no matching resource).
    • When you submit 500 sequentially jobs, it fails at some point showing messages like System load is too high. Tested on a virtual dual core-machine with 4Gb Ram.
  • WMS 3.3.4 ice.log file information - https://ggus.eu/tech/ticket_show.php?ticket=78435
  • Issues and workarounds are suggested in the above link.
    • WMS not supported wildcards for authorization: https://ggus.eu/ws/ticket_info.php?ticket=74257
    • Cron job deletes /var/proxycache when no activity: https://ggus.eu/ws/ticket_info.php?ticket=78295
  • proxyrenewal problems in WMS: https://ggus.eu/tech/ticket_show.php?ticket=78892
    • This is a bug in the VOMS client library and affecting the proxyrenewal in the WMS. No workaround is known presently. The developers have accepted the bug and are working to solve it.
• Version: 3.3.4