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<span style="font-family: Avenir-Medium;">Dear all,</span>
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<div style="font-family: Avenir-Medium;">There are a few issues piling up:</div>
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<div style="font-family: Avenir-Medium;">1. <b>Pelican file transfers:</b></div>
<div style="font-family: Avenir-Medium;"> The new file transfer system (pelican) is acting up. This affects files to and back from OSG, including LUND submissions.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Avenir-Medium;">2. <b>xrootd deprecation at JLab:</b></div>
<div style="font-family: Avenir-Medium;"> We learned that JLab’s IT decommissioned our xrootd support last maintenance day. </div>
<div style="font-family: Avenir-Medium;"> This impacts all jobs that rely on background merging. </div>
<div style="font-family: Avenir-Medium;"> These jobs are being are skipped for the moment, to be resumed when we move to the alternative (pelican)</div>
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<div style="font-family: Avenir-Medium;">The path forward is:</div>
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<div style="font-family: Avenir-Medium;">a. Temporarely suspend new submissions while these issues are worked out</div>
<div style="font-family: Avenir-Medium;">b. Continue monitoring of the successful / failed jobs in the current queue</div>
<div style="font-family: Avenir-Medium;">c. Clean up and resubmit failed jobs once the problems are resolved.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Avenir-Medium;">If you had submissions that did not go through properly, please keep a list but hold off on sending it to me for now, as it may duplicate what I’m tracking.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Avenir-Medium;">May the force be with us,</div>
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<div style="font-family: Avenir-Medium;">Mauri</div>
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<div style="font-family: Avenir-Medium;">Jobs currently skipped because of bg merging:</div>
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<div>9972</div>
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<div>9982 </div>
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<div>9984</div>
<div>9987</div>
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<div>10006</div>
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