Thank you all for your replies. I will report the bug, as it is not as visible as it should be.
I celebrated yesterday by waiting for fifteen minutes for a job to start, which had failed silently đ With kind regards, Dries On 2021-07-08 18:10, Killian Murphy wrote: You can't know the file system state at job runtime, but you can catch the case where the output path can't be resolved at job submission time - I expect this will catch the majority of issues (we also see this come up fairly regularly!). On Thu, 8 Jul 2021 at 16:59, Marcus Boden <mbo...@gwdg.de<mailto:mbo...@gwdg.de>> wrote: I already answered tons of tickets due to this, when our users are confused, that the job silently fails. The problem is, you cannot solve this with a job_submit or cli_filter, as you do not know the situation of the file system at job runtime. Or even on the node in the end. At lest the slurmd gives an error, so you could scan the logs for this error and maybe use that to automate something. Best, Marcus On 08.07.21 16:58, Jeffrey T Frey wrote: >> I understand that there is no output file to write an error message to, but >> it might be good to check the `--output` path during the scheduling, just >> like `--account` is checked. >> >> Does anybody know a workaround to be warned about the error? > > I would make a feature request of SchedMD to fix the issue, then I would > write a cli_filter plugin to validate the --output/--error/--input paths as > desired until Slurm itself handles it. > > -- Marcus Vincent Boden, M.Sc. Arbeitsgruppe eScience, HPC-Team Tel.: +49 (0)551 201-2191, E-Mail: mbo...@gwdg.de<mailto:mbo...@gwdg.de> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gesellschaft fĂŒr wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH Göttingen (GWDG) Am FaĂberg 11, 37077 Göttingen, URL: https://www.gwdg.de Support: Tel.: +49 551 201-1523, URL: https://www.gwdg.de/support Sekretariat: Tel.: +49 551 201-1510, Fax: -2150, E-Mail: g...@gwdg.de<mailto:g...@gwdg.de> GeschĂ€ftsfĂŒhrer: Prof. Dr. Ramin Yahyapour Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Prof. Dr. Norbert Lossau Sitz der Gesellschaft: Göttingen Registergericht: Göttingen, Handelsregister-Nr. B 598 Zertifiziert nach ISO 9001 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Killian Murphy Research Software Engineer Wolfson Atmospheric Chemistry Laboratories University of York Heslington York YO10 5DD +44 (0)1904 32 1223 e-mail disclaimer: http://www.york.ac.uk/docs/disclaimer/email.htm --- NĂ€r du skickar e-post till SLU sĂ„ innebĂ€r detta att SLU behandlar dina personuppgifter. För att lĂ€sa mer om hur detta gĂ„r till, klicka hĂ€r <https://www.slu.se/om-slu/kontakta-slu/personuppgifter/> E-mailing SLU will result in SLU processing your personal data. For more information on how this is done, click here <https://www.slu.se/en/about-slu/contact-slu/personal-data/>
