[Aces-support] error on my aces home account

ACES-admin at techsquare.com ACES-admin at techsquare.com
Mon Aug 1 10:47:30 EDT 2005


hello peteri-

we should be alright for the short-term
now. happy computing...

[greg]

> Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 10:32:33 -0400 (EDT)
> Cc: ACES-admin at techsquare.com
> From: ACES-admin at techsquare.com
> 
> hello peteri-
> 
> system problem. rebooting ao presently. 
> will look in to the root-cause as soon 
> as time permits. 
> 
> [greg]
> 
> > Date: Mon,  1 Aug 2005 10:10:45 -0400
> > From: Peter H Israelsson <peteri at mit.edu>
> > MIME-Version: 1.0
> > Cc: 
> > Reply-To: ACES-support at mitgcm.org
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I have a rather serious problem with my aces account (peteri), which I think I
> > caused myself.
> > 
> > I ran a simulation about 10 minutes ago on ao.acesgrid.org and I got an
> > "journaling" error message.  I am now effectively locked out of the directory
> > that I was running it in (/home/peteri/run_0507-01_tr1).  I can go to the
> > directory, but when I type "ls" I get the error:
> > ls: reading directory .: Input/output error
> > 
> > I tried logging out and back in and when I log on I get the following errors:
> > /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth:  error in locking authority file home/peteri/.Xauthority
> > init.c(375):ERROR:50: Cannot open file '' for 'append'
> > 
> > I tried removing the entire directory, but get the error:
> > rm: cannot remove `run_0507-01_tr1': Read-only file system
> > 
> > I tried altering the permissions on the directory using chmod, but I don't even
> > have access to this command!
> > 
> > My sincere apologies for any problems that my simulation caused.  It was working
> > fine before, and then I made a minor code change before restarting the
> > simulation.  In my haste I didn't test the change on my own system before
> > starting the simulation on the cluster.  Will avoid that in the future.  Sorry
> > about that.
> > 
> > Can you help me fix this?  Please note that the offending directory,
> > run_0507-01_tr1, can be deleted.  Thanks in advance for your help.
> > 
> > Peter
> > 
> > 
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >   Peter H. Israelsson
> >   Massachusetts Institute of Technology
> >   Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
> >   48-114, 15 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > 
> > 
> > 
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