[GE users] qstat bug found?

[Stephan Grell - Sun Germany - SSG - Software Engineer]

Yes,

that is a bug.

Stephan

Chris Dagdigian wrote:

>Can someone replicate this just to make sure I'm not seeing things? I'll 
>file the bugzilla report if this is real.
>
>Basically qstat with the "-xml" option works great in all invocations 
>except seemingly when there is any sort of job in state "E".
>
>-Chris
>
>
>I'm writing XSL translators for qstat HTML output and was just ready to 
>put my demo CGI online when I found something interesting:
>
>On 2 systems I tested (Suse SLES on SGI Altix & Apple OS X Server) the 
>following seems to occur:
>
>  $ qstat -f -xml
>
>Will fail with a sefgault (on SGI Altix) or a malloc error on OS X if 
>any running or pending job is  in error state E
>
>The quickest way for me to build a test case with a job in E state was 
>just to submit a job as a user that exists on the sgemaster but not on 
>the exec hosts.
>
>Without "-xml":
>
>  
>
>>dag at xxx:~/public_html/xml-qstat> qstat -f
>>queuename                      qtype used/tot. load_avg arch          states
>>----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>all.q at node249.cluster.private  BIP   0/2       0.00     lx26-amd64    
>>----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>all.q at xxx.cluster.private  BIP   2/2       0.00     lx26-amd64    
>>    126 0.55500 Sleeper    dag          r     04/14/2005 15:19:53     1        
>>    129 0.55500 Sleeper    dag          r     04/14/2005 15:19:53     1        
>>
>>############################################################################
>> - PENDING JOBS - PENDING JOBS - PENDING JOBS - PENDING JOBS - PENDING JOBS
>>############################################################################
>>    127 0.00000 Sleeper    dag          Eqw   04/14/2005 15:19:50     1        
>>    128 0.00000 Sleeper    dag          Eqw   04/14/2005 15:19:51     1        
>>    130 0.00000 Sleeper    dag          Eqw   04/14/2005 15:19:52     1        
>>    131 0.00000 Sleeper    dag          Eqw   04/14/2005 15:19:53     1        
>>    132 0.00000 Sleeper    dag          Eqw   04/14/2005 15:19:53     1        
>>dag at xxx:~/public_html/xml-qstat> 
>>    
>>
>
>With the "-xml" switch:
>
>  
>
>>dag at xxx:~/public_html/xml-qstat> qstat -f -xml
>>Segmentation fault
>>dag at xxx:~/public_html/xml-qstat> 
>>    
>>
>
>Same problem occurs on an OS X system but the error is different:
>
>  
>
>>workgroupcluster:~ bioteam$ qstat -f -xml
>>*** malloc[4996]: Deallocation of a pointer not malloced: 0x8840; This could be a double free(), or free() called with the middle of an allocated block; Try setting environment variable MallocHelp to see tools to help debug
>>*** malloc[4996]: Deallocation of a pointer not malloced: 0x21e94; This could be a double free(), or free() called with the middle of an allocated block; Try setting environment variable MallocHelp to see tools to help debug
>>Bus error
>>    
>>
>
>
>
>-Chris
>
>
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