GT 4.0.5 Incremental Release Notes: Pre-WS GRAM

1. Introduction

These release notes are for the incremental release 4.0.5. It includes a summary of changes since 4.0.4, bug fixes since 4.0.4 and any known problems that still exist at the time of the 4.0.5 release. This page is in addition to the top-level 4.0.5 release notes at http://www.globus.org/toolkit/releasenotes/4.0.5.

For release notes about 4.0 (including feature summary, technology dependencies, etc) go to the Pre-WS GRAM 4.0 Release Notes.

2. Changes Summary

The major change for Pre-WS GRAM in 4.0.5 was to add support for generating a service audit record and upload of the record to a database. More can be read from the following:

Overall bugzilla campaign

Pre-WS GRAM specific campaign

TeraGrid 2007 Paper on GRAM Auditing

Talk (powerpoint)

3. Bug Fixes

  • Bug 5091: Incomplete jobmanager contact string crashes gram client
  • Bug 5268: myjob crash when GLOBUS_GRAM_MYJOB_CONTACT is unset

4. Known Problems

  • Bug 1550: Fixes for race condition in job manager
  • Bug 1934: Gatekeeper's syslog output cannot be controlled
  • Bug 3373: globus removes the temporary job directory before pbs wri...
  • Bug 3428: globus-personal-gatekeeper -list failing
  • Bug 2739: Gatekeeper AuthZ/Gridmap Callout result logging
  • Bug 2741: catching SIGSEGV if dynamic loading of authorization modu...
  • Bug 4235: globus-job-manager doesn't exit if the job fails.
  • Bug 4360: globus-job-get-output bug prevents output delivery, PBS jobmanager affected. See also globus-job-clean, globus-job-cancel
  • Bug 4450: GT 4.0.1 globus-gatekeeper hang on UC/ANL TeraGrid
  • Bug 4730: MPI Jobs using Globus LSF in HP XC Cluster....
  • Bug 4747: Need evaluation of patch to JobManager.pm
  • Bug 4771: date bug in job manager log file
  • Bug 4905: setup-globus-gram-job-manager.pl fails silently when globus-version is missing
  • Bug 5143: DONE state never reported for Condor jobs when using Condor-G grid monitor
  • Bug 5200: GRAM (pre-webservices) from OSG 0.6.0 (VDT 1.6.1) has bad syslog format
  • Bug 5207: GRAM SoftEnv extension bug
  • Bug 5272: Invalid parsing of RSL file

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