Release Announcement for ARC version 0.8.1.1
January 28, 2010
Advanced Resource Connector (ARC) version 0.8.1.1 is a bug fix release
for ARC 0.8.1. Please consult
release
notes of ARC 0.8 and of
0.8.1 for detailed product description.
Bug fixes:
- With SLURM, ngkill'ed jobs get stuck in KILLING state forever (bug 1747)
- Deal with bad cache configuration better, allow cachedir=/
- Bringing conf file instructions up to date
- Allow LFC DataPoints only if LFC is supported
- Updated package dependencies
- Information system does not work with OpenSSL < 0.9.8 due to missing issuer_hash command.
- Increased POSIX compliance in service scripts
- Added timestamps to grid-infosys logfiles
- submit-sge-job does not handle parallel environments correctly when count=1 (bug 1771)
- Handle empty pid-files, solves issue with trying to stop infosys too soon, also doesn't run kill without a pid
- RTE stage 0 not working with Condor backend
- Redirect stdout of RTE stage 0 to job.*.errors file (instead of /dev/null). Helps with debugging RTEs
- Set default sessiondir when none is given
- Updated size limits for cache and number of elements possible to keep in a BDII to new EGEE recommended values
- Updated infoindex error message to show real file access
- Now handles mpi and scratch-dir properly
- Updated cluster.pl to handle cache information correctly
- Added check for missing cacert directory (bug in OpenLDAP on some RHEL4 installations)
- Updated nordugrid schema to support utf8 in many places
- Renamed cron-script (bug 1737)
- Job finished succesfully but no SGE accounting record found (bug 1790)
- Fix for not working linkpath configuration option (bug 1780)
- joboption_count is written to .diag as ExecutionUnits by submit-*-job. (bug 1695)
- Job start and end-times are written as LRMSStartTime and LRMSEndTime to .diag (bug 1752)
- Proper handling of maxwalltime "UNLIMITED/infinite" in SLURM backend
- Fix bug 1799, missing default values for memory requirements when missing in XRSL
- Fix problems simultaneously creating SRM directories
- Fix problems when submitting jobs on LRMSes where shared filesystem is not used (bug 1806)
- Default memory limits when not set in XRSL is now set to 1gb (previously it was undefined)
- Fix listing of FTP files by adding MLST and LIST to tried commands (bug 1666)
- Infosystem does not handle local queuing SGE arrayjobs correctly (bug 1732)
- Fix incorrect nordugrid-queue-totalcpus and nordugrid-queue-running in SGE 6.2
- grid-infosys can now be configured with chkconfig
Known issues
- It is not recommended to run this release on Fedora 11 due to the information system problems (bug 1617)
- Does not work on Fedora 12 due to OpenSSL 1.0