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Hi Brian, I am not using FTS just a simple lcg-cr. Any other ideas? All th ebest, david On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, brian davies wrote: > On 18/08/05, Dr D J Colling <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > A few weeks ago I was trying to do some CMS production the last stage of > > which was to copy the output to the storage element at RAL....and we had > > lots of failures in the copy. In the end we cheated and forced all the > > jobs to go to the RAL CE and copy to the RAL SE. > > > > This worked (as you would hope) however it didn't seem to be very > > Grid-like so last night and today I submitted lots (hundreds) of very > > short jobs that just tried doing an lcg-cr to the RAL dcache. Most (a far > > greater fraction a few weeks ago) copied the files successfully. Those few > > that failed failed for two reasons: > > > > 1. > > > > SE type not found > > lcg_cr: Invalid argument > > > > This was the one that I saw most of when trying to do the MC production. > > However, there are far fewer of these now. This seemed to for a whole site > > rather than individual nodes. > > > > 2. > > SE endpoint not found > > SE endpoint not found > > SE endpoint not found > > > Is this FTS retrying ? ( default is that fts tries three times then > goes to HOLD state) > If you have access to your channel ( or know who does) see if the > files associated with this errror map to the files in the HOLD state > of FTS for your channel > > > > Usually repeated three times as shown. > > > > Does anybody know what causes these two errors? How can I protect against > > them? The first seemed to be for all nodes at a site so retrying would not > > help whereas the second seemed to be transitory. > > > > Sorry if these are "Numpty" questions answered elsewhere ... if they are > > please could somebody me to this information. > > > > All the best and thanks for your help, > > david > > > > PS For Stephen Burke: > > Numpty Dumpty didn't have a great fall ... he was hit by a car. > > > >