problems witht cell!=default

[Peter Cordes]

I built the Intrepid source packages (6.2~beta2-2) on a Hardy AMD64 system. After installing, I configured with debconf. I chose the cell name equal to my cluster's name. Something must still be assuming SGE_CELL=default, though:

$ sudo -u sgeadmin qconf -au peter users
 error: cell directory "/var/lib/gridengine/default" doesn't exist

 I do have a /var/lib/gridengine/perun directory, though.

 I'm in a hurry, so I'm just going to reinstall SGE with cell=default

 I haven't seen a good tutorial about setting up grid engine, although I have used it on a Sun cluster.

[Peter Cordes (peter-cordes)]

This is probably because gridengine-common.postinst does
chown 644 ${TMPFILE}
instead of
chmod 644 ${TMPFILE}

so other tools can't read /etc/default/gridengine

[Peter Cordes (peter-cordes)]

sent email to Debian Grid Engine Maintainers <email address hidden>
to notify them of this and the csh dep bug. The bugs are too small to be worth filing on the Debian BTS too.

 BTW, I'm now sure that the chmod thing was the cause of my problems with CELL != default. It would be good if the prompts told you that most people do use CELL=default, not their hostname or anything.

[Peter Cordes (peter-cordes)]

fixed in Debian's 6.2-2, along with a documentation bug I reported to Debian's BTS. See
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=497103

 The depend-on-csh bug isn't fixed, though.

[Peter Cordes (peter-cordes)]

Debian released the fix for this in 6.2-2