I'm getting a mix of valid and invalid ATLAS native tasks on different BOINC clients since 12:36 UTC today.
All invalids fail after about 10 min runtime.

Examples:
https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/result.php?resultid=270323978
https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/result.php?resultid=270328004
https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/result.php?resultid=270324483

With CentOS in native and Windows and NO proxy, up to now for today no problems.
Edit: RDP is not shown in Windows.

At least three of my computers running Windows and vbox tasks have suddenly run into validate errors today. Tasks failing in about 6 minutes.

Examples:
https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/result.php?resultid=270325128
https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/result.php?resultid=270340255
https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/result.php?resultid=270358724

have now also three in native at 18:45 UTC with a stop after 10 min.
[2020-03-30 20:24:54] Starting ATLAS job with PandaID=4687202094
[2020-03-30 20:24:54] Running command: /usr/bin/singularity exec --pwd /var/lib/boinc/slots/0 -B /cvmfs,/var /cvmfs/atlas.cern.ch/repo/containers/images/singularity/x86_64-centos7.img sh start_atlas.sh
[2020-03-30 20:24:55] Job failed
[2020-03-30 20:24:55] ++ pwd

Hi,

There was a bunch of bad tasks submitted yesterday by accident. They were submitted over a period of 2 hours yesterday afternoon and so hopefully they will be flushed out the system soon.

Thanks.
So far all ATLAS tasks I got today are running fine.

I've still been getting some. One was sent in 1 Apr 2020, 2:04:13 UTC. Doesn't bother me. Only a small amount of time is wasted.

Hi,

There was a bunch of bad tasks submitted yesterday by accident. They were submitted over a period of 2 hours yesterday afternoon and so hopefully they will be flushed out the system soon.

Most tasks from the faulty bunch were sent out for the first time 2 days ago.
They will disappear when the #errors is high enough:
https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/workunit.php?wuid=137171081


This afternoon I got a faulty task that was generated today.
Is it part of the same old bunch or part of another faulty one?
https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/workunit.php?wuid=137380248

I too am experiencing ATLAS tasks failing after approximately 10 minutes. I just saw over a half dozen that did that.

Looking at the task details I found this

"Stderr output

<core_client_version>7.9.3</core_client_version>
<![CDATA[
<message>
process exited with code 195 (0xc3, -61)</message>
<stderr_txt>
20:53:25 (20061): wrapper (7.7.26015): starting
20:53:25 (20061): wrapper: running run_atlas (--nthreads 12)
awk: line 2: function strftime never defined
21:03:26 (20061): run_atlas exited; CPU time 0.007836
21:03:26 (20061): app exit status: 0x1
21:03:26 (20061): called boinc_finish(195)

</stderr_txt>
]]>
"



function strftime never defined error

Searching for "strftime" at the top of this page will deliver the answer.

OK, did that...

https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/result.php?resultid=271425574

awk: line 2: function strftime never defined


The scripts used to control LHC native tasks expect gawk to be used.
It looks like this computer is using mawk instead.
Solution: install gawk and make sure the awk link points to gawk

What is 'awk" and what is gawk and mawk?

If I disable native in my preferences I too get near immediate computation errors...

https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/result.php?resultid=274314793
[2020-05-22 20:26:23] *** Error codes and diagnostics ***
[2020-05-22 20:26:23] "exeErrorCode": 0,
[2020-05-22 20:26:23] "exeErrorDiag": "",
[2020-05-22 20:26:23] "pilotErrorCode": 1346,
[2020-05-22 20:26:23] "pilotErrorDiag": "Transform not found:/bin/bash: Sim_tf.py: command not found\n",
[2020-05-22 20:26:23] *** Listing of results directory ***
[2020-05-22 20:26:23] insgesamt 252860

since yesterday evening, all tasks are failing after about 14 minutes runtime and about 3-4 minutes CPU time.
Examples:

https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/result.php?resultid=277285377
https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/result.php?resultid=277286741
https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/result.php?resultid=277286884

what's going wrong?

tasks are failing after about 14 minutes runtime and about 3-4 minutes CPU time.

Examples:

https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/result.php?resultid=277284464
https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/result.php?resultid=277285287
https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/result.php?resultid=277286589
https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/result.php?resultid=277286071

"pilotErrorDiag": "Transform not found:/bin/bash: Sim_tf.py: command not found\n",

I have the same problem with ATLAS native since yesterday.

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"pilotErrorDiag": "Transform not found:/bin/bash: Sim_tf.py: command not found\n",

I have the same problem with ATLAS native since yesterday.

ah, okay, thanks for the information.
So there might be misconfigured tasks around, for VM as well as for native.
I was wondering whether the Windows10 Update to 2004 which was made on this computer 2 days ago has to do with the problem (because before, ATLAS tasks did NOT fail). So this then probably is not the case.

I now switched to CMS, and they run well.

I now switched to CMS, and they run well.

They follow the Law of Conservation of Working Projects at CERN.
When one thing starts working, another fails.
Ivan saved us.

]Searching for "strftime" at the top of this page will deliver the answer.[/quote]Hmm, was that answer retracted???[pre]Sorry, couldn't find anything matching your search query.[/pre]

Extend the default search period (30 days in the past) and you will get a couple of hits.
Among them (posted 2020-04-12):
https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/forum_thread.php?id=5391&postid=42138

Running Atlas-Tasks showing in the Server-Stats atm 5k, mostly 10k in the past.
There must be something wrong with Boinc-Tasks from Cern.
Isn't growing up:
https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/img/progresschart.png