ARC v11.05 update 1 Release Notes

August 16, 2011

NorduGrid ARC 11.05 has received an update to most components from version 1.0.0 to 1.0.1 and documents from 1.0.1 to 1.0.2.

ARC components in 11.05 update 1:

• ARC Core (includes documents)
• ARC Clients
• ARC CE
• ARC Infosys
• ARC gridftp server
• arcjobtool GUI (not updated)

ARC Core

ARC Core component contains: HED, HED LIDI, HED security, HED language bindings, DMCs and ARC documentation.

Package list

Binaries:

• nordugrid-arc-1.0.1
• nordugrid-arc-doc-1.0.2
• nordugrid-arc-ca-utils-1.0.1
• nordugrid-arc-debuginfo-1.0.1
• nordugrid-arc-devel-1.0.1
• nordugrid-arc-doxygen-1.0.1
• nordugrid-arc-hed-1.0.1
• nordugrid-arc-java-1.0.1
• nordugrid-arc-python-1.0.1
• nordugrid-arc-python26-1.0.1
• nordugrid-arc-plugins-needed-1.0.1
• nordugrid-arc-plugins-globus-1.0.1

Binary tarballs:

• nordugrid-arc-bin.tar.gz
• nordugrid-arc-doc-bin.tar.gz

Source package:

• nordugrid-arc-1.0.1-1.el5.src.rpm
• nordugrid-arc-doc-1.0.2-1.el5.src.rpm

Source tarballs:

• nordugrid-arc-1.0.1.tar.gz
• nordugrid-arc-doc-1.0.2.tar.gz

Documentation

• ARC HED description
• WS configuration manual

Release notes

What's new:

High priority bugs fixed:

• 2491 2.6 python bindings for RH5

Medium priority bugs fixed:

• 2455 arc1 fails to compile with recent libxml2 and xmlsec
• 2507 arc* commands inconsistent behaviour between each other
• 2405 gridftp dmc is not using anonymous as the default for plain ftp

Less urgent bugs fixed:

• 2497 Inconsistent CA packages installation instruction
• 2403 arc.conf.template refers to arc server but is in package nordugrid-arc-client
• 2407 No check for Python.h is made in ./configure, but the python bindings are built
• 2451 autogen.sh fails on SLC5

Deployment notes:

New package nordugrid-arc-python26-1.0.1-0.rc4.el5.x86_64.rpm has been added. Otherwise this release does not introduce any changes in the deployment procedures described in ARC documentation

Known Issues

None

ARC Clients

ARC Clients component contains pre-WS compute CLI, pre-WS data CLI, WS compute CLI and WS data CLI

Package list

Binaries:

• nordugrid-arc-client-1.0.1
• nordugrid-arc-compat-1.0.0
• nordugrid-arc-compat-debuginfo-1.0.0

Binary tarballs:

• nordugrid-arc-bin.tar.gz
• nordugrid-arc-compat-bin.tar.gz

Source package:

• nordugrid-arc-1.0.1-1.<os>.src.rpm
• nordugrid-arc-meta-1.0.1-1.<os>.src.rpm
• nordugrid-arc-compat-1.0.0-1.<os>.src.rpm

Source tarballs:

• nordugrid-arc-1.0.1.tar.gz
• nordugrid-arc-compat-1.0.0.tar.gz

Meta package:

• nordugrid-arc-client-tools-1.0.1

Documentation

• Functional description of WS clients
• WS Client user guide
• Pre-WS Client user guide
• WS client installation instructions
• Pre-WS client installation instructions
• Troubleshooting
• XRSL manual
• Transition from Pre-WS to WS client - a guide

Release notes

What's new:

High priority bugs fixed:

• 2475 XRSLParserTest fails on some 64bit platforms: RHEL 4+5, SL5, Fedora 5+6
• 2472 Period and Time not usable with python for missing methods to get values
• 2423 arctest can not find targets, reports bogus error
• 1887 arcstat -a very inefficient
• 2452 ARClib's DownloadDirectory aborts with: globus_list_rest: Assertion `head != 0' failed.
• 2463 argget report failure in downloading jobs from ARC0 sites

Medium priority bugs fixed:

• 2148 User tools (arccp/rm/ls) should uri encode their arguments before using them
• 2426 typo in job description for arctest -J1
• 2429 ldapsearch should escape parentheses
• 2469 arcsub seg faults when [] is in the job description
• 2520 GGUS-Ticket-ID: #72340 EMI1 ARC CE 1.0.0 wrong user mapping
• 2442 ARC incompatible with CERN voms server
• 2420 arcproxy manpage errors
• 2365 Job submission failed, no more possible targets however server is health
• 2484 ARClib does not export the version number/string
• 2288 More informative errors in arcstat when a site is down
• 2430 ARC shouldn't request a gsiftp URL when it isn't configured to use one
• 2431 ARC should release the TURL after transfer failure
• 2458 arcls fails to list files on dcache gridftp server
• 2493 ngrm command line options descriptions differ

Less urgent bugs fixed:

• 2529 arcproxy: wrong error message when key/certificate files are absent

Deployment notes:

This release does not introduce any changes in the deployment procedures described in ARC Clients documentation.

Known Issues

Bugs 2471 and 2485 (requesting two versions of the same runtime environment simultaneously) are not fixed yet.

For bug 2473 (crash in SWIG-generated Python library) only a workaround exists so far.

ARC CE

ARC CE component includes A-REX, CE-Cache, CE-staging, LRMS modules, JURA, nordugridmap, information providers and Janitor

Package list

Binaries:

• nordugrid-arc-arex-1.0.1
• nordugrid-arc-janitor-1.0.1
• nordugrid-arc-gridmap-utils-1.0.1

Binary tarballs:

• nordugrid-arc-bin.tar.gz

Source package:

• nordugrid-arc-1.0.1-1.<os>.src.rpm
• nordugrid-arc-meta-1.0.2-1.<os>.src.rpm

Source tarballs:

• nordugrid-arc-1.0.1.tar.gz

Meta package:

• nordugrid-arc-compute-element-1.0.1

Documentation

• Design and functional description of A-REX
• ARC CE installation instructions
• Configuration template
• Data Staging Wiki
• Batch back-ends guide
• Janitor handbook
• JURA documentation

Release notes

What's new:

High priority bugs fixed:

• 2482 looping downloader
• 2236 Uploaders hangs
• 2301 Uploaders from WS ARC segfault while trying to upload to SRM:// URLs
• 2474 renew credentials does not work with arc1 server
• 2449 ARC 11.05 parsing voms attributes
• 2520 GGUS-Ticket-ID: #72340 EMI1 ARC CE 1.0.0 wrong user mapping
• 2442 ARC incompatible with CERN voms server

Medium priority bugs fixed:

• 2370 multiple arched processes are spawned
• 2388 Logrotate and gridftp and A-REX
• 2425 Timeout for user uploadable files is too long
• 2445 A-REX crashes when using WS-interface
• 2453 arcclean reporting failure at server site
• 2456 seg fault from gridftpd when submitting job
• 2494 jobs get stuck in EXECUTED when resumed after failing in uploading output files
• 2527 inputcheck not resolving hostnames at all
• 2375 Two downloaders per job, blocking each other
• 2467 Failure not reported in gm-jobs.log
• 2434 No man page - nordugridmap
• 2411 Only SLURM 2.2.1 supported, not newer version.
• 2427 gm-kick is called by scan-SLURM-job but it is not installed in {$basedir}
• 2441 Unable to configure ARC to build with external LCMAPS headers
• 2540 [Arc] [ERROR] [15117/165611864] Failed setting file owner
• 2219 Segmentation faults in DataStagingDelivery
• 2470 URLs with spaces cannot be cached
• 1214 cache logging location and general log rotation
• 2519 nordugrid-arc-compute-element metapackage does not trigger the installation of CA packages
• 2496 Wrong metapackage name in server installation instructions

Less urgent bugs fixed:

• 2412 Downloading fails from ARC gridftpd 0.8.1 site when using cache.
• 2486 missmatch between Mb and kB in scan-sge-job
• 2461 GGUS-Ticket-ID: #71248 EMI1: arc-ce documentation issues

Deployment notes:

This release does not introduce any changes in the deployment procedures described in ARC CE documentation.

Known Issues

Bug 2240 (crash triggered by setenv/getenv calls in LFC libraries) is resolved by a temporary workaround. A proper solution requires re-write of LFC libraries.

Feature request 2523 (configurable fall-back user mapping in case of non-accepted VOMS extensions) is pending for documentation.

ARC Infosys

ARC Infosys component contains ARIS, EGIIS and ARC Grid Monitor

Package list

Binaries:

• nordugrid-arc-aris-1.0.1
• nordugrid-arc-egiis-1.0.1
• nordugrid-arc-ldap-monitor-1.0.1

Binary tarballs:

• nordugrid-arc-bin.tar.gz

Source package:

• nordugrid-arc-1.0.1-1.<os>.src.rpm
• nordugrid-arc-meta-1.0.2-1.<os>.src.rpm

Source tarballs:

• nordugrid-arc-1.0.1.tar.gz

Meta package:

• nordugrid-arc-information-index-1.0.1

Documentation

• ARC Information system guide and technical description
• LDAP Grid monitor description

Release notes

What's new:

High priority bugs fixed:

• 2487 Infosystem thrashes the contents of /var/lock/subsys/ when started
• 2516 WARNING: Failed to create ldif generator script for infosys

Medium priority bugs fixed:

• 2504 The grid-infosys and the bdii start-up scripts use the same files
• 2535 1.0.1rc4 infoprovider failes due to wrong PID location
• 2435 No man page - arc-infoindex-relay & arc-infoindex-server
• 2447 GGUS-Ticket-ID: #70959 EMI1 arc-infosys1.0.0, missing conf file or template, and also missing in the documentation

Deployment notes:

This release does not introduce any changes in the deployment procedures described in ARC Infosys documentation.

Known Issues

Documentation improvements are still needed.

ARC gridftp server

ARC gridftp server component contains ARC gridftp server and ARC gridftp jobplugin.

Package list

Binaries:

• nordugrid-arc-gridftpd-1.0.1

Binary tarballs:

• nordugrid-arc-bin.tar.gz

Source package:

• nordugrid-arc-1.0.1-1.<os>.src.rpm

Source tarballs:

• nordugrid-arc-1.0.1.tar.gz

Documentation

• ARC gridtpd description

Release notes

What's new:

Medium priority bugs fixed:

• 2536 gridftpd doesn't work when arc.conf is a symlink

Deployment notes:

This release does not introduce any changes in the deployment procedures described in ARC gridftp documentation.

Known Issues

None

Availability

Source

Source code for main components is available from:
http://svn.nordugrid.org/repos/nordugrid/arc1/tags/1.0.1

Source for the compatibility package (old client) is available from: svn co \
http://svn.nordugrid.org/repos/nordugrid/arc0/tags/compat_1.0.0 arc_compat-1.0.0

Documentation source (mostly LaTeX) is available from: svn co http://svn.nordugrid.org/repos/nordugrid/doc/tags/1.0.2 arc_doc-1.0.2