Job failing error messages

Why does my job die with an error like the ones below:

  • Cannot write to file

  • File I/O error

  • Failed to write

  • Cannot open

Supercomputing FAQs

This is likely to be a quota problem; check your quota and request an increase if necessary.

It could also be that you are trying to write to an unavailable directory; does the destination directory exist on the node you're running on? Note that /scratch.global directories are the same from all nodes, but /scratch.local directories are local to each node and have different contents.

To create files in a destination directory you must have permission to write to the directory. To edit a file you must have permission to write to the file. To list the contents of a directory including the associated Linux permissions use the command:

ls -l

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