Using non-English characters in jsub, jstart, qcronsub program name
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	Kanashimi
	Mar 20 2019, 6:10 AM

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When working under the new Debian Stretch environment, I find that when I assign a program name with non-English characters, it will just be ignored and won't appear in my Grid Engine jobs list. But with the same program name, it worked in Ubuntu Trusty.

The error message (e.g., in "cron-tools.cewbot-20150503.提報關注度不足過期提醒.err"):

Unable to run job: Error reading answer list from qmaster
Exiting.

It seems there are some similar discussions:
http://wikimedia.7.x6.nabble.com/Toolserver-having-a-bad-day-td4906700.html
http://arc.liv.ac.uk/pipermail/sge-bugs/2012-February/000271.html

But I still don't know how to fix the problem.

Did I miss anything?

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Kanashimi created this task.Mar 20 2019, 6:10 AM

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I assume this is about Toolforge? Context welcome. :)

Aklapper added a project: I18n.Mar 20 2019, 9:15 AM

@Aklapper Yes, it's about Toolforge.

Giftpflanze subscribed.Mar 23 2019, 8:14 AM

• GTirloni added a project: cloud-services-team (Kanban).Mar 24 2019, 10:58 AM

This seems to be a known bug upstream: https://arc.liv.ac.uk/trac/SGE/ticket/1411

Passing qsub a non-ASCII job name (for instance), it reports
Unable to run job: Error reading answer list from qmaster.
whereas a forbidden ASCII character reports, say
Unable to run job: At ('@') not allowed in objectname.

I added a note about this issue at https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/News/Toolforge_Trusty_deprecation#%22Unable_to_run_job:_Error_reading_answer_list_from_qmaster%22

We could probably add something to our jsub wrapper program to either give a nicer error message or to somehow automatically translate the job name into something that does work with the grid engine.

YFdyh000 subscribed.Feb 18 2021, 2:04 PM

fnegri edited projects, added cloud-services-team; removed cloud-services-team (Kanban).Jan 18 2023, 7:37 PM

fnegri moved this task from Kanban to Inbox on the cloud-services-team board.

Boldly declining given the plans to deprecate the grid engine cluster.

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