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Cylc: a workflow engine for cycling systems.
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Killing submitted loadleveler job does not update status #555

Closed matthewrmshin closed 10 years ago

matthewrmshin commented 11 years ago

Killing a loadleveler job at the submitted state (via cylc kill or gcylc) does not appear to update the status of the suite.

Is it because we are relying on the trap of the job script to send a message back to the suite to tell the suite that the job has been killed? (Obviously, the trap would not work if the job script is not even started.)

hjoliver commented 11 years ago

@matthewrmshin - no we're not relying on the job script error trap. If the kill command succeeds, the poll-and-kill thread puts "kill command succeeded" in the task message queue, and that should be picked up in task.py and result in a task state change. I'll see if I can reproduce the problem.

hjoliver commented 11 years ago

It works for me - I used an LL directive output = /illegal for an unwritable job output file to make LL put the queued job on "User Hold" indefinitely, then I attempted to kill it with cylc. This cancelled the job and cylc put the task in the submit-failed state. Must be something odd happening at your end?

hjoliver commented 10 years ago

@matthewrmshin - can we close this?

matthewrmshin commented 10 years ago

I need to have another look at this.

matthewrmshin commented 10 years ago

This is no longer an issue. (Tested using latest master.)