Common Problems
If you find yourself having difficulty starting a VNC session, try the following steps:
Ensure that you are using the same username and password that you use for SSH'ing to Oscar.
Make sure you are using the latest version from the VNC page​
Check the Java version on your computer. We recommend at least java
version 8.
SSH to Oscar (not through VNC) and run the command "
myq" to see ifthere are any VNC jobs running. If there are, cancel those jobs
using the command "
scancel <jobID>". Now try using VNC.Make sure you are not over disk quota using the command "
myquota".
This means that either your home, data or scratch directory is over its disk quota limit and the grace period has also expired (or you have hit the highest possible limit too).
The command to monitor your disk quota usage is:
myquota
Example output:
Block Limits | File LimitsType Filesystem Used Quota HLIMIT Grace | Files Quota HLIMIT Grace-------------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------USR home 8.401G 10G 20G - | 61832 524288 1048576 -USR scratch 332G 512G 12T - | 14523 323539 4194304 -FILESET data+apollo 11.05T 20T 24T - | 459764 4194304 8388608 -
There are limits on the amount of data as well as number of files. "Grace" is the grace period you have left after you exceed the quota. After the grace period expires, you will not be allowed to write to files and a "disk quota exceeded" error will be shown. "HLIMIT" is the highest limit which can't be breached even in the grace period.
If you find you are above quota limits, you can delete or compress files to bring down your usage. If your home directory is over limits, you can move files to your data directory. You can also simply ask your PI to get additional storage allocation. Here are the rates.
We set an expiry date on all student accounts and guest accounts. This is to avoid misuse of those accounts and prevent cluttering up of the system after those users have become inactive or are no longer at Brown.
In case you want to continue using CCV resources and face this error while logging in, simply send us an e-mail at [email protected] and we will reactivate your account. If you have an estimated graduation date, let us know so that we can set the expiry around that time.
Error: Offending RSA key in ~/.ssh/known_hosts:4. This indicates you have an offending RSA key at line no. 4
Solution 1
$ vi ~/.ssh/known_hostsremove line no: 4.Save and Exit, and Retry.
Solution 2
ssh-keygen -R "ssh.ccv.brown.edu"
Solution: Run your program after loading a more recent gcc module. For example,
module load gcc/5.4
The default version of gcc on Oscar is 4.8.5 which comes installed as part of the OS.
Solution: Run setup_ssh from command line when logged in to Oscar. This will restore your SSH key files.
Solution: See the "Restoring Files" section on the file systems page.
Solution: Many programs are compiled with dynamic linking to libraries on which they depend. The dynamic linker called ld looks for these dependencies during run time and complains if it can't find them.
Example:
libmpichcxx.so not found
Here, it is looking for a library which is part of MPI implementations. You can load a module like mvapich2 so that the path to this library is added to LD_LIBRARY_PATH and can be found by the run time linker. It might happen that only a particular version is required. A web search on the library name also might reveal what software package it belongs to.
If you want to know what all shared libraries are required during run time by an executable, you can use the ldd utility. For example:
$ ldd /gpfs/runtime/opt/paraview/4.2.0/bin/paraviewlinux-vdso.so.1 => (0x00007fffecfff000)/usr/local/lib/libslurm.so (0x00007f70f8348000)libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x0000003e18800000)libdl.so.2 => /lib64/libdl.so.2 (0x0000003e19000000)libpthread.so.0 => /lib64/libpthread.so.0 (0x0000003e19400000)/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x0000003e18400000)
We generally make it a point to add information about these dependencies to the modules such that the info is displayed while loading modules. If you find a package for which dependencies are not displayed while loading modules or you are not able to figure out where to find the library file, contact us at [email protected] and we will correct the mistake.
Solution: In most cases, you can check whether a module exists using the command:
perldoc -l Module::Name
For example,
$ perldoc -l Math::CDF/gpfs/runtime/opt/perl/5.18.2/lib/site_perl/5.18.2/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/Math/CDF.pm
If it does not exist, you can email us.
Also, chances are that you are using the "wrong" Perl to execute your script. Check the first line of the script. Does it say:
#!/usr/bin/perl
If yes, it is using the Perl executable /usr/bin/perl instead of the one under "perl/5.18.2" (the module for this is loaded by default on Oscar). This line is called a "shebang". This should be fine as such, but sometimes it may produce errors due to conflict between the Perl versions.
Change this to:
#!/usr/bin/env perl
so that it uses the first Perl executable in your PATH environment variable which should be the 5.18.2 version.
Generally, by doing a web search on the error, you can find out the issue, if not solve it. Do a web search on the actual error message (usually starts with "Error:"). Other information displayed with the message is also important, but including that in the web search might make it too specific and filter out useful results.
Finally, feel free to send us an email at [email protected] if you are not able to resolve the issue.
