Hello list,
have finally decided to look into upgrading our SGE6.2 installation -
mainly to see if it helps with my job scheduling problem.
I'm trying to build Son of Grid Engine - succeeded actually. Currently
trying to make it run / import my old configuration. Which mostly
worked. Couple of niggles.
Our setup is SGE_ROOT on shared NFS file system, SGE running as a
non-root user. I'd quite like to keep it that way (it worked well for
us). Managed to build & install, got the qmaster running, managed to
start execds. However, at least inst_sge.sh -upd-execd simply refuses to
work if you're not root, if I remember correctly (not helping!).
Script(s) sometimes say 'You are not installing as user >root< - Can't
set the file owner/group and permissions'. It would help if they'd tell
me (without digging through them) what files they're trying to
chown/chmod and what they're trying to chown/chmod it to - so I can fix
that, if there is a problem. Goes for a lot of these sort of errors (to
do with running as non-root) - if it fails to do something, it would
really help to know what it failed to do.
The other thing is that I keep having to run it with -nobincheck, as far
as I can tell simply because I didn't build qmon. Annoying - should it
not just check for actually required binaries?
Importing my old installation / upgrading from my old installation
didn't quite work. Mostly did, it seems, which is something. No error
that I'd seen during the import/upgrade, but none of my queues are
there. Host groups are; exec hosts are; complexes look okay; global
config looks right. PEs aren't there; trying to create the PEs from the
config files I originally created them from I get 'error: required
attribute "qsort_args" is missing'. Assume that's the root problem (i.e.
did not manage to import PEs, thus can't import queues). Anyone else had
issues with that? Should the save_config script have caught that?
And now for the important question :). My execds currently are a mix of
RHEL5 and RHEL6; SoGE got compiled on RHEL6, doesn't work on RHEL5
execds. Also, all nodes and the master/shadow hosts get software
upgrades quite regularly - I would like to avoid having to recompile
SoGE whenever I run yum update (the old installation is nicely agnostic
to all of this, it Just Works(TM) - well, at least it worked with RHEL5
and RHEL6.) Plus I've installed hwlock in a non-standard location (and
currently have to tell the execd process where it is). Is there an
option for aimk to build statically linked binaries? (I'm sort of
guessing that that's what the difference is here.).
Apologies for the very long post.
Tina
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