# Job status showing E

**URL:** <https://community.openpbs.org/t/job-status-showing-e/3465>\
**Category:** Users/Site Administrators\
**Created:** [March 15, 2023, 5:28am UTC](https://community.openpbs.org/t/job-status-showing-e/3465 "2023-03-15T05:28:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![narayan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/22d042/32.png) [@narayan](https://community.openpbs.org/u/narayan)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2023, 5:28am UTC](https://community.openpbs.org/t/job-status-showing-e/3465/1 "2023-03-15T05:28:13Z")

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Dear Team,

Need your help here.

**Problem**

PBS version = 14.1 and OS flavor = Centos 6.4

Jobs is completed then also showing E status of jobs and occupied the nodes. Every time we need to forcefully kill the jobs.

Regards  
Narayan Pradhan

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**Author:** ![adarsh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f07891/32.png) [@adarsh](https://community.openpbs.org/u/adarsh)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2023, 7:37am UTC](https://community.openpbs.org/t/job-status-showing-e/3465/2 "2023-03-16T07:37:32Z")

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> [@narayan](#):
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> Jobs is completed then also showing E status of jobs and occupied the nodes. Every time we need to forcefully kill the jobs.

Please check the mom logs of the node on which the job ran or stuck in E state.  
Stuck in long “E” state means, there is an issue with stageout