perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Paul MEBALE-ASSAKO <>]

Hello ,

We are experiencing a problem with our perfsonar testpoints. They are running on Ubuntu 22.04 and we have installed the perfsonar testpoint 5.1.4-1 version. 

The limits.conf file is the one used by default during installation

We get this error message when we run ‘pscheduler troubleshoot’:

mebale-assako@lille-snd-021:~$ pscheduler troubleshoot

Performing basic troubleshooting of lille-snd-021.

...

  Checking limits... Failed.

Limit processor is not initialized: ‘ascii’ codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 11: ordinal not in range(128)

According to pscheduler validate-limits all is well: 

 mebale-assako@lille-snd-021:~$ pscheduler validate-limits

Limit configuration is valid.

When I delete the limits.conf file from /etc/pscheduler/ the error message disappears but I have no limits configured.

mebale-assako@lille-snd-021:~$ pscheduler troubleshoot

Performing basic troubleshooting of lille-snd-021.

...

  Checking limits... OK.

The error seems to occur on line 69 of the /usr/share/pscheduler/api-server/pschedulerapiserver/limitproc.py file: 

this.processor = LimitProcessor(this.limit_file)

However, when I manually execute the following instructions, I can't reproduce the problem.

#!/usr/bin/python3

from pscheduler.limitprocessor.limitprocessor import LimitProcessor

try:

    processor = LimitProcessor(‘/etc/pscheduler/limits.conf’)

except Exception as ex:

    print(ex)

I've tried removing fragments of the /etc/pscheduler/limits.conf file to isolate the problem without success.

Any help would be appreciated

Paul MEBALE
Ingénieur Réseau
Tel.: +33 1 53 94 20 31