exit status 139 on qsub?

[liviaking]

I'm having some trouble submitting a matlab job to the queue. The command I use is:

/software/common/bin/ezsub -c "matlab -nodesktop -nosplash < /groups/vwfa/att_pilot/batch/PPI/runPPIFTWComplex.m" -n ftwrun

If I simply run matlab from command line: matlab -nodesktop -nosplash < /groups/vwfa/att_pilot/batch/PPI/runPPIFTWComplex.m

it runs fine, but whenever I submit it to the queue, it fails right away with exit status=139.

[satra]

i just ran:

ezsub -c "matlab -nodesktop -nosplash \< ~/test.m" -n foo

and it seems to work fine.

[liviaking]

Other scripts have worked for me in the past too, so I think it's at least somewhat script specific. The thing that confuses me though, is that when I run it just straight from the terminal, it doesn't crash.

[satra]

the job submission shouldn't crash. can you copy and paste the output from
the job submission command.

[liviaking]

Command Line:

Jobfile: /users/kingl/pbs/ezsub_1322841361.579602.0.05.sh
qsub -o /users/kingl/pbs -e /users/kingl/pbs /users/kingl/pbs/
ezsub_1322841361.579602.0.05.sh
782468.sub.mit.edu

PBS_ID 782468.sub.mit.edu

Email 1:

PBS Job Id: 782468.sub.mit.edu
Job Name: ftwrun
Exec host: ba6/0
Begun execution

Email 2:

PBS Job Id: 782468.sub.mit.edu
Job Name: ftwrun
Exec host: ba6/0
Execution terminated
Exit_status=139
resources_used.cput=00:00:00
resources_used.mem=0kb
resources_used.vmem=0kb
resources_used.walltime=00:00:00

Could it have something to do with the fact that the script generates
figures on the screen? I think Jenny had some issues with that, but
following her solution (setting DISPLAY to ba3.mit.edu:2.0) did not help in
this case.

On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 10:53 AM, Satrajit Ghosh <
reply@reply.github.com

wrote:

the job submission shouldn't crash. can you copy and paste the output from
the job submission command.

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