condor: can't find address of local schedd

I'm trying to submit my condor job but it keeps giving me an error saying:

ERROR: Can't find address of local schedd 

I'm a beginner condor user and I'm not quite sure what this means.

Also when I type condor_q i get the following Error message:

Error: Can't find address for schedd (name) Extra Info: You probably saw this error because the condor_schedd is not running on the machine you are trying to query. If the condor_schedd is not running, the Condor system will not be able to find an address and port to connect to and satisfy this request. Please make sure the Condor daemons are running and try again. Extra Info: If the condor_schedd is running on the machine you are trying to query and you still see the error, the most likely cause is that you have setup a personal Condor, you have not defined SCHEDD_NAME in your condor_config file, and something is wrong with your SCHEDD_ADDRESS_FILE setting. You must define either or both of those settings in your config file, or you must use the -name option to condor_q. Please see the Condor manual for details on SCHEDD_NAME and SCHEDD_ADDRESS_FILE. 

Interestingly condor_status works just fine(I can see the status of all the clusters).

I did some research and it says I need to use public directory in order to access it. Is there a specific directory for condor submissions/queues?

3 Answers

Check if the condor scheduler is running (you can use $ ps aux | grep condor to see all the condor* processes in your machine)

If sched is not running you need to add it to the daemons list in your central manager machine conf (the line that contains a list like MASTER, STARTD, NEGOTIATOR ...)

BTW: condor status works OK because the COLLECTOR daemon is certanly running.

This may be related to a permission error. I was having same error, done following lines and the issue was fixed.

mkdir -p /var/run/condor # If it does not exist mkdir -p /var/lock/condor # If it does not exist # Recreate them from scratch sudo rm -rf /var/lib/condor sudo mkdir -p /var/lib/condor/spool/local_univ_execute sudo mkdir -p /var/lib/condor/execute sudo chown -R condor: /var/lib/condor sudo chmod 1777 /var/lib/condor/spool/local_univ_execute sudo chmod 1777 /var/lib/condor/execute mkdir -p /var/log/condor/ sudo chown -R condor: /var/log/condor sudo chmod 1777 /var/log/condor # Kill all the condor daemons you have running, sudo service condor stop sudo killall condor sudo killall condor_procd sudo service condor start # Condor should run as a system service. $ ps auxwwww | grep condor # You should see all processes run under condor. condor 7656 0.0 0.2 47508 4644 ? Ss 08:43 0:00 /usr/sbin/condor_master -pidfile /var/run/condor/condor.pid root 7699 0.2 0.1 24384 3920 ? S 08:43 0:00 condor_procd -A /var/run/condor/procd_pipe -L /var/log/condor/ProcLog -R 1000000 -S 60 -C 126 condor 7700 0.0 0.2 47004 5436 ? Ss 08:43 0:00 condor_shared_port -f condor 7701 0.1 0.3 57252 6620 ? Ss 08:43 0:00 condor_collector -f condor 7704 0.1 0.3 48352 6816 ? Ss 08:43 0:00 condor_startd -f condor 7705 0.0 0.3 58052 7188 ? Ss 08:43 0:00 condor_schedd -f condor 7706 0.0 0.2 47500 5880 ? Ss 08:43 0:00 condor_negotiator -f $ condor_q # check condor_q works or not -- Schedd: condor@ebloc : <127.0.0.1:9618?... @ 10/26/18 08:46:06 OWNER BATCH_NAME SUBMITTED DONE RUN IDLE HOLD TOTAL JOB_IDS 0 jobs; 0 completed, 0 removed, 0 idle, 0 running, 0 held, 0 suspended 

For me it was that you can't submit a batch job in an interactive job. Make sure you are on the head node.

Head node for me:

(automl-meta-learning) miranda9~/automl-meta-learning $ hostname vision-sched.cs.illinois.edu 

Compute node:

(automl-meta-learning) miranda9~/automl-meta-learning $ hostname vision-19.cs.illinois.edu