ARC v12.05 update 3 Release Notes

April 25, 2013

This is a bug fix release, addressing three important bugs: 3151, 3159 and 3160.

NorduGrid ARC 12.05 update 2 has received an update to:

• core, clients, CE, Infosys and gridftp - from version 2.0.2 to 2.0.3
• documents - from 1.2.1 to 1.2.2

Nagios plugins,CAnL C++, metapackages, old cliets and GUI are unchanged w.r.t. ARC 12.05 update 2.

ARC components in 12.05 update 3:

• ARC Core 2.0.3 (includes nordugrid-arc-doc v1.2.2)
• ARC Clients 2.0.3 (includes nordugrid-arc-compat v1.0.1)
• ARC CE 2.0.3 (includes nordugrid-arc-nagios-plugins v1.6.0)
• ARC Infosys 2.0.3
• ARC gridftp server 2.0.3
• canl++ 0.2.0

ARC Core

No changes

ARC Clients

No changes

ARC Compute Element

Fixed bugs 3159 and 3160

ARC Information System

No changes

ARC gridftp server

Fixed bug 3151

Common authentication library CaNL++

No changes

Nagios plugins

No changes

Fixed bugs

Since ARC 12.05u2, the following bugs were fixed:

• 3151 gridftpd seg faults at the end of every child process
• 3159 multiple errors in `/usr/share/arc/configure-SLURM-env.sh`
• 3160 submit-SLURM-job fails with syntax error and exit code 2

Known issues

• ARC GUI (arcjobtool) is not available yet, pending implementation of client library changes.
• Standalone client tar-balls for Linux are not yet available.
• As a result of bug fix 2851, A-REX can take up to one minute to stop.
• Bug 2905 is solved using workaround. Source of problem is not yet identified.

Availability

Source

ARC release 12.05 update 3 consists of the following source packages:

• NorduGrid ARC, version 2.0.3 (main components)
• NorduGrid ARC "compat", version 1.0.1 (old client)
• NorduGrid ARC Documents version 1.2.2
• metapackages for client tools, computing element and information index, version 1.0.2
• Nagios probes for ARC CE, version 1.6.0

Source code for main components is available from:
http://svn.nordugrid.org/repos/nordugrid/arc1/tags/2.0.3

Source for the compatibility package (old client) is available from:
http://svn.nordugrid.org/repos/nordugrid/arc0/tags/compat_1.0.1

Documentation source (mostly LaTeX) is available from:
http://svn.nordugrid.org/repos/nordugrid/doc/tags/1.2.2

Source for metapackages is available from:
http://svn.nordugrid.org/repos/packaging/{fedora,debian}/nordugrid-arc-meta/tags/1.0.2

Source for Nagios probes is available from:
http://svn.nordugrid.org/repos/nordugrid/nagios/tags/release-1.6.0

Source for the common authentication library caNl++ is available from:
http://svn.nordugrid.org/repos/workarea/caNl++/tags/0.2.0

Repositories

See detailed description at NorduGrid downloads

These repositories provide binary packages for:

• Debian: 4.0, 5.0 and 6.0 (i386 and amd64)
• Fedora: from 3 to 18 (i386 and x86_64)
• RedHat: EL4, EL5 and EL6 (i386 and x86_64)
• Ubuntu: 8.04, 8.10, 9.04, 9.10, 10.04, 10.10, 11.04, 11.10, 12.04 and 12.10 (i386 and amd64)

Scientific Linux and CentOS are implicitly supported through corresponding RedHat repositories.

Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X versions are available from same repositories for clients and some services.