I'm trying to set up a Condor pool where I work. We have five computers all running Ubuntu 10.04. I tried to install Condor with apt-get but that gave me problems that I couldn't figure out. So I've installed using the tar.gz file from the Condor website.

I've followed this installation guide
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/manual...tallation.html
but the problem I'm having is not addressed.

So far I've tried to install on four of the five computers. One was successful, the other three give me the same error when I try to start the Condor daemon:

FATAL: Required directory FATAL: Unable to locate LOG in /etc/condor/condor_config does not exist, or is not a directory.

Clearly I should look in /etc/condor/condor_config for the variable LOG right, well I've done that and it points to a folder, that does not exist on the computer that allows Condor to start, and did not exist on the others. However I created that folder and try again and it still gives that error.

Any thoughts? Anyone else run into this? I can't find this problem anywhere online, but I can't believe that I'm the only one having the problem since it's happening on three of the four computers.

I just successfully installed condor on one of the three that had the error. I had accidentally installed the 64 bit version of condor, but that computer has the 32 bit version of Ubuntu. The other two computers however are running 64 bit Ubuntu.

No, I am running 32 bit on the other two as well. I've tried to install the 32 bit version and it now works on two of the three that were not working, but i still have the same problem with the third.

Okay, the problem I was having seems to be fixed. I'm not sure if this is what did it, but I think just downloading the tar.gz and reinstalling it worked. I'm having a new problem with one of my machines. I'm trying the above solution, but I'm having a problem now when I install.

$ sudo ./condor_install --overwrite --prefix=/home/condor --local-dir=/scratch/condor --type=execute,submit
Installing Condor from /home/condor to /Shared/condor-7.6.0-x86_64_deb_5.0-stripped
ERROR: Can't read config source /scratch/condor/condor_config.local
Unable to find local directory!

This file does not exist, but I've never had to create it before, it was automatic on the others. I tried copying the /scratch/condor/ directory from another machine, but that gave a later error about not being able to read a file inside that folder, a file which was there and had the same permissions on this computer as the analog file on the other computers.

$ /etc/init.d/condor start
bind had uid 120
Starting up Condor... 06/06/11 12:39:33 Can't open "/scratch/condor/log/MasterLog"
dprintf() had a fatal error in pid 3288
Can't open "/scratch/condor/log/MasterLog"
errno: 13 (Permission denied)
euid: 1001, ruid: 1001
failed to start Condor with "/home/condor/sbin/condor_master -pidfile /scratch/condor/log/condor.pid".



When I looked at the MasterLog file it was owned by condor:condor and had read and write privileges. However chown condor:condor and a chmod a+rw fixed the problem, by changing nothing. I don't get it.