Known issues

Unresolved known issues

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Resolved known issues

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Known Issues

Title Category Resolution Description Posted Updated
Testing Issue for Quantum Espresso 7.4.1 on Ascend Ascend, Software Resolved

Benchmark AUSURF112 for quantum-espresso/7.4.1 on Ascend aborts.  We suspect that this is a lurking bug in Quantum Espresso and are reporting it as a convenience.  Concerned users can use... Read more

4 months 2 weeks ago 2 months 1 week ago
Performance issues with MVAPICH2 on Cardinal Cardinal, Software Resolved
(workaround)

We have observed that several applications built with MVAPICH2, including Quantum ESPRESSO 7.4.1, HDF5, and OpenFOAM... Read more

4 months 4 weeks ago 2 months 1 week ago
CP package hang with MVAPICH3 in Quantum-Espresso Software Resolved

While using MVAPICH3 builds of Quantum ESPRESSO (QE), users may encounter hangs when running the CP package, which can lead to job timeouts. We recommend switching to the OpenMPI build of... Read more

7 months 2 weeks ago 2 months 1 week ago
Singularity: failed to run a container directly or pull an image from Singularity or Docker hub Software Resolved
(workaround)

You might encounter an error while run a container directly from a hub:

[pitzer-login01]$ apptainer run shub://vsoch/hello-world
Progress... Read more          
8 months 4 weeks ago 2 months 2 weeks ago
Apptainer sandbox fails on GPFS due to stale NFS file handles Software Resolved

Users may encounter errors when attempting to run a sandbox on GPFS-mounted directories such as /fs/scratch or /fs/ess. The error... Read more

6 months 1 week ago 2 months 2 weeks ago
Singularity: failed to pull a large Docker image Software Resolved
(workaround)

You might encounter an error while pulling a large Docker image:

[pitzer-login01]$ apptainer pull docker://qimme2/core
FATAL: Unable to pull docker://qiime2/core While... Read more          
8 months 4 weeks ago 2 months 2 weeks ago
Reached your pull rate limit while pull from Docker hub Software Resolved
(workaround)

You might encounter an error when pulling from Docker hub:

ERROR: toomanyrequests: Too Many Requests.

or

You have reached your... Read more          
4 years 7 months ago 2 months 2 weeks ago
Storage Service Interruption Outage Resolved

This is resolved. If you do not see the Project or Scratch filesystems in your filebrowser in OnDemand, use the "Restart Web Server" option in the help menu in... Read more

3 months 1 day ago 3 months 1 day ago
Code Server ondemand.osc.edu cannot open this folder because it contains system files OnDemand, Software Resolved

Trying to download a directory through code server results in the error "ondemand.osc.edu cannot open this folder because it contains system files"

To work... Read more

3 months 2 weeks ago 3 months 2 weeks ago
MPI fails with UCX 1.18 Software Resolved
(workaround)

After the downtime on August 19, 2025, users may encounter UCX errors such as:

UCX ERROR no active messages transport to <no debug data>: self/memory -... Read more          
5 months 2 weeks ago 4 months 2 days ago

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