[LU-9208] getcwd() sometimes fails

• Type: Bug
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Priority: Minor
• Affects Version/s: Lustre 2.5.3, Lustre 2.8.0
• Severity: 3
• Assignee: Zhenyu Xu
• Reporter: Ned Bass (Inactive)

Description

We have an IO test called Miranda which is written in Fortran (attached). It intermittently fails when running in Lustre because getcwd() returns NULL with errno set to ENOENT. This behavior is similar to what was reported in LU-645. We've reproduced the problem on a single node on a Lustre 2.8 client server environment as well as Lustre 2.5. Typically the problem will occur within an hour or two when running Miranda continuously in a loop. Typical invocation is something like

cd /p/lquake/some_lustre_dir
srun -N 1 -n 36 -pplustre28 /path/to/miranda_io 100

The failing run prints out something like

forrtl: severe (121): Cannot access current working directory for unit 10739, file "Unknown"
Image              PC                Routine            Line        Source             
miranda_io         000000000040FEE9  Unknown               Unknown  Unknown
miranda_io         000000000041C992  Unknown               Unknown  Unknown
miranda_io         000000000040A4F1  Unknown               Unknown  Unknown
miranda_io         0000000000408F9E  Unknown               Unknown  Unknown
libc.so.6          00002AAAABBAEB35  Unknown               Unknown  Unknown
miranda_io         0000000000408EA9  Unknown               Unknown  Unknown
srun: error: opal93: task 735: Exited with exit code 121
srun: First task exited 30s ago
srun: tasks 0-734,736-1259: running
srun: task 735: exited abnormally
srun: Terminating job step 1166343.0
slurmd[opal38]: *** STEP 1166343.0 KILLED AT 2017-03-02T08:52:13 WITH SIGNAL 9 ***
slurmd[opal40]: *** STEP 1166343.0 KILLED AT 2017-03-02T08:52:13 WITH SIGNAL 9 ***
slurmd[opal35]: *** STEP 1166343.0 KILLED AT 2017-03-02T08:52:13 WITH SIGNAL 9 ***
slurmd[opal36]: *** STEP 1166343.0 KILLED AT 2017-03-02T08:52:13 WITH SIGNAL 9 ***
slurmd[opal41]: *** STEP 1166343.0 KILLED AT 2017-03-02T08:52:13 WITH SIGNAL 9 ***
...

I haven't collected debug logs yet but the bug shouldn't be hard to reproduce in a test environment.

Issue Links

• is duplicated by: LU-9735 Sles12Sp2 and 2.9 getcwd() sometimes fails

Comments

[Andreas Dilger]

It appears that the LU-9735 fix is relevant to all kernels after 2.6.37. That patch was landed for 2.11 and 2.10.3.

[Ned Bass (Inactive)]

Ned, are you also running Intel MPI when this problem is hit? According to the comment in LU-9735, this problem only appears to be relevant to Intel MPI.

No. I can reproduce it on a single node non-MPI program. I wrote a simple C program to simulate what Miranda is doing and just ran a bunch of copies of it in the background. Eventually getcwd() fails with errno=ENOENT. I'll dig up the program and attach it here.

[Andreas Dilger]

Ned, are you also running Intel MPI when this problem is hit? According to the comment in LU-9735, this problem only appears to be relevant to Intel MPI.

[Mahmoud Hanafi]

We have recently upgraded to Sles12sp2 and lustre 2.9 clients and started to see this issues. 

 

[Ned Bass (Inactive)]

I attached a test case Red Hat provided for a similar issue seen on NFS. They are interested to know if we can reproduce this on Lustre and NFS. LLNL doesn't have cycles to spend on this right now so I am uploading here in case others want to take a stab at it. I'd be happy to feed any results back to Red Hat.

[Ned Bass (Inactive)]

Reopening to allow attaching a file.

[Ned Bass (Inactive)]

Our testing team just reported that they may have reproduced this bug on an NFS filesystem. So this may not be a Lustre-specific bug. I'll close the ticket for now, and will re-open it if we get any further evidence that it's a Lustre problem.

Thanks for your time on this issue.

[Ned Bass (Inactive)]

There's nothing useful in miranda.log other than the error message that I included in the description.

[Zhenyu Xu]

I didn't see miranda.log in the attachment in this ticket.

[Ned Bass (Inactive)]

I was appending miranda_io output to miranda.log. I suspect the ioctl failure is unrelated to the getcwd() problem.