Good Morning galaxy group! I was hoping that someone might have some ideas on a problem we have experienced a handful of times running galaxy on our local cluster. Occasionally we experience some communication timeouts between out cluster head node and a compute node which will self heal. However, this in turn will hang galaxy. Below you will see output from our galaxy log file. When the ERROR happens (which is not often) it consistently seems to hang galaxy. We have to kill it off and restart it. We are running galaxy as a single PID at this time (we are still just testing it out, etc) and it is running on our head node (which we plan to move off of in the future). galaxy.jobs.runners.drmaa DEBUG 2012-01-10 19:19:58,800 (1654/698075) state change: job is running galaxy.jobs.runners.drmaa ERROR 2012-01-10 20:57:47,021 (1654/698075) Unable to check job status Traceback (most recent call last): File "/data/galaxy-dist/lib/galaxy/jobs/runners/drmaa.py", line 236, in check_watched_items state = self.ds.jobStatus( job_id ) File "/data/galaxy-dist/eggs/drmaa-0.4b3-py2.7.egg/drmaa/__init__.py", line 522, in jobStatus _h.c(_w.drmaa_job_ps, jobName, _ct.byref(status)) File "/data/galaxy-dist/eggs/drmaa-0.4b3-py2.7.egg/drmaa/helpers.py", line 213, in c return f(*(args + (error_buffer, sizeof(error_buffer)))) File "/data/galaxy-dist/eggs/drmaa-0.4b3-py2.7.egg/drmaa/errors.py", line 90, in error_check raise _ERRORS[code-1]("code %s: %s" % (code, error_buffer.value)) DrmCommunicationException: code 2: failed receiving gdi request response for mid=24442 (got syncron message receive timeout error). galaxy.jobs.runners.drmaa WARNING 2012-01-10 20:58:05,090 (1654/698075) job will now be errored galaxy.jobs.runners.drmaa DEBUG 2012-01-10 20:59:06,396 (1654/698075) User killed running job, but error encountered removing from DRM queue: code 2: failed receiving gdi request response for mid=24444 (got syncron message receive timeout error). galaxy.datatypes.metadata DEBUG 2012-01-10 20:59:06,896 Cleaning up external metadata files galaxy.datatypes.metadata DEBUG 2012-01-10 20:59:06,947 Failed to cleanup MetadataTempFile temp files from database/tmp/metadata_out_HistoryDatasetAssociation_2913_ZUTgBy: No JSON object could be decoded: line 1 column 0 (char 0) galaxy.datatypes.metadata DEBUG 2012-01-10 20:59:09,640 Cleaning up external metadata files galaxy.jobs INFO 2012-01-10 20:59:09,697 job 1656 unable to run: one or more inputs in error state galaxy.datatypes.metadata DEBUG 2012-01-10 20:59:10,121 Cleaning up external metadata files galaxy.jobs INFO 2012-01-10 20:59:10,159 job 1655 unable to run: one or more inputs in error state galaxy.datatypes.metadata DEBUG 2012-01-10 20:59:12,076 Cleaning up external metadata files galaxy.jobs INFO 2012-01-10 20:59:12,126 job 1657 unable to run: one or more inputs in error state galaxy.datatypes.metadata DEBUG 2012-01-10 20:59:13,601 Cleaning up external metadata files galaxy.jobs INFO 2012-01-10 20:59:13,650 job 1658 unable to run: one or more inputs in error state Has anyone else experienced this or have some ideas on how we can further debug to figure out why galaxy hangs? Thanks much! Ann Black-Ziegelbein