# Pbs doesnt start after openhpc update

**URL:** <https://community.openpbs.org/t/pbs-doesnt-start-after-openhpc-update/989>\
**Category:** Users/Site Administrators\
**Created:** [May 10, 2018, 8:38pm UTC](https://community.openpbs.org/t/pbs-doesnt-start-after-openhpc-update/989 "2018-05-10T20:38:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![trumee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/848f3c/32.png) [@trumee](https://community.openpbs.org/u/trumee)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2018, 9:14pm UTC](https://community.openpbs.org/t/pbs-doesnt-start-after-openhpc-update/989/3 "2018-05-10T21:14:15Z")

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I found this [thread](http://community.openpbs.org/t/issue-starting-pbs/403) related to my problem. The suggestion there was to delete /var/spool/pbs and start afresh. Is it possible to avoid this, i would like to get the information on the jobs run for the past week for accounting purposes.

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