# Job stuck in queue, multiple servers **URL:** \ **Category:** Users/Site Administrators\ **Created:** [July 20, 2022, 12:12pm UTC](https://community.openpbs.org/t/job-stuck-in-queue-multiple-servers/3218 "2022-07-20T12:12:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Blackest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5e9695/32.png) [@Blackest](https://community.openpbs.org/u/Blackest)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2022, 12:12pm UTC](https://community.openpbs.org/t/job-stuck-in-queue-multiple-servers/3218/1 "2022-07-20T12:12:08Z")
Greetings, I have installed openpbs on a workstation (a single machine run everything, it is possible to remotely access through ssh). I managed to send jobs just fine until a couple of months ago. I haven’t used it for a while and now that I’m back the job I sent are stuck in queue. There are no other jobs running. If I delete the jobs no error files are created. I checked logs and everything seems fine. I noted this detail though, when I input pbsnodes -av I have two identical servers with different status (stale and free) sysadmin@Precision-7920-Tower:~/testVASP/newtest$ pbsnodes -av precision-7920-tower Mom = precision-7920-tower ntype = PBS state = Stale pcpus = 20 resources\_available.arch = linux resources\_available.host = precision-7920-tower resources\_available.mem = 97495476kb resources\_available.ncpus = 20 resources\_available.vnode = precision-7920-tower resources\_assigned.accelerator\_memory = 0kb resources\_assigned.hbmem = 0kb resources\_assigned.mem = 0kb resources\_assigned.naccelerators = 0 resources\_assigned.ncpus = 0 resources\_assigned.vmem = 0kb resv\_enable = True sharing = default\_shared license = l last\_state\_change\_time = Wed Jul 20 14:45:18 2022 last\_used\_time = Tue Jan 18 22:15:56 2022 Precision-7920-Tower Mom = precision-7920-tower ntype = PBS state = free pcpus = 20 resources\_available.arch = linux resources\_available.host = precision-7920-tower resources\_available.mem = 97495476kb resources\_available.ncpus = 20 resources\_available.vnode = Precision-7920-Tower resources\_assigned.accelerator\_memory = 0kb resources\_assigned.hbmem = 0kb resources\_assigned.mem = 0kb resources\_assigned.naccelerators = 0 resources\_assigned.ncpus = 0 resources\_assigned.vmem = 0kb resv\_enable = True sharing = default\_shared license = l last\_state\_change\_time = Wed Jul 20 14:45:18 2022 last\_used\_time = Wed Jul 20 13:16:42 2022 I wonder if this could be the issue. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Blackest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5e9695/32.png) [@Blackest](https://community.openpbs.org/u/Blackest)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2022, 12:42pm UTC](https://community.openpbs.org/t/job-stuck-in-queue-multiple-servers/3218/2 "2022-07-20T12:42:07Z")
Update: I had removed the nodes and recreated with qmgr. Now the pbdsnodes -av gives me a single results with a free state: sysadmin@Precision-7920-Tower:~/testVASP/newtest$ pbsnodes -av Precision-7920-Tower Mom = precision-7920-tower ntype = PBS state = free pcpus = 20 resources\_available.arch = linux resources\_available.host = precision-7920-tower resources\_available.mem = 97495476kb resources\_available.ncpus = 20 resources\_available.vnode = Precision-7920-Tower resources\_assigned.accelerator\_memory = 0kb resources\_assigned.hbmem = 0kb resources\_assigned.mem = 0kb resources\_assigned.naccelerators = 0 resources\_assigned.ncpus = 0 resources\_assigned.vmem = 0kb resv\_enable = True sharing = default\_shared license = l last\_state\_change\_time = Wed Jul 20 15:38:04 2022 This still does not solve the issue with the job in queue. I will wait for answers. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![adarsh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f07891/32.png) [@adarsh](https://community.openpbs.org/u/adarsh)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2022, 6:37am UTC](https://community.openpbs.org/t/job-stuck-in-queue-multiple-servers/3218/3 "2022-07-21T06:37:10Z")
Please share us the output of the below commands: - qstat -answ1 - qstat -fx - qstat -Bf ---
**Author:** ![Blackest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5e9695/32.png) [@Blackest](https://community.openpbs.org/u/Blackest)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2022, 10:37am UTC](https://community.openpbs.org/t/job-stuck-in-queue-multiple-servers/3218/4 "2022-08-16T10:37:18Z")
Sorry for the late answer. This are the outputs: sysadmin@Precision-7920-Tower:~/testVASP/newtest$ qstat -answ Precision-7920-Tower: Req’d Req’d Elap Job ID Username Queue Jobname SessID NDS TSK Memory Time S Time * * * 4011.Precision-7920-Tower sysadmin workq testjob – 1 20 – 24:00 Q – – – sysadmin@Precision-7920-Tower:~/testVASP/newtest$ qstat -fx qstat: PBS is not configured to maintain job history sysadmin@Precision-7920-Tower:~/testVASP/newtest$ qstat -Bf Server: Precision-7920-Tower server\_state = Active server\_host = precision-7920-tower scheduling = True total\_jobs = 1 state\_count = Transit:0 Queued:1 Held:0 Waiting:0 Running:0 Exiting:0 Begun :0 managers = root@Precision-7920-Tower default\_queue = workq log\_events = 511 mailer = /usr/sbin/sendmail mail\_from = adm query\_other\_jobs = True resources\_default.ncpus = 1 default\_chunk.ncpus = 1 resources\_max.mpiprocs = 20 resources\_max.ncpus = 20 scheduler\_iteration = 600 resv\_enable = True node\_fail\_requeue = 310 max\_array\_size = 10000 pbs\_license\_min = 0 pbs\_license\_max = 2147483647 pbs\_license\_linger\_time = 31536000 license\_count = Avail\_Global:1000000 Avail\_Local:1000000 Used:0 High\_Use:0 pbs\_version = 20.0.0 eligible\_time\_enable = False max\_concurrent\_provision = 5 max\_job\_sequence\_id = 9999999 Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![adarsh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f07891/32.png) [@adarsh](https://community.openpbs.org/u/adarsh)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2022, 2:04pm UTC](https://community.openpbs.org/t/job-stuck-in-queue-multiple-servers/3218/5 "2022-08-17T14:04:45Z")
Please try this: 1. qmgr -c “print nodes @default” \> printnodes.txt 2. qmgr -c “delete nodes @default” 3. qmgr -c “create node precision-7920-tower” 4. Then submit a test job 5. qstat -answ1 6. pbsnodes -av ---
**Author:** ![Blackest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5e9695/32.png) [@Blackest](https://community.openpbs.org/u/Blackest)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2022, 4:08pm UTC](https://community.openpbs.org/t/job-stuck-in-queue-multiple-servers/3218/6 "2022-09-14T16:08:50Z")
Sorry for the delayed reply. Everything seems to work fine now and I am not clear what happened. I will let you know if I encounter other issues. Meanwhile we can consider the issue solved. Thank you again!