Hanging on running for a build

[thomas-robinson]

Links

• container collection: https://singularity-hub.org/collections/4931
• GitHub repository or recipe file: https://github.com/thomas-robinson/fms_containers/blob/main/gcc10/openmpi/ubuntu/Singularity.FMS-netcdf4.6.3

Version of Singularity

3.6.4 (local)

3-4-2-100-gb (shub)

Behavior when Building Locally

singularity build -f Singularity.FMS-netcdf4.6.3.sif Singularity.FMS-netcdf4.6.3

builds successfully

Error on Singularity Hub

The status has said "running" for 4 hours now. According to the documentation, it would have been killed after 3 hours. The container takes about 15 minutes to build locally.

What do you think is going on?

I can't diagnose the problem because I don't have access to any log files or output. I am using spack to build netcdf, so it could be possible that the spack build is taking too long? The file isn't that big (612 MB)

$ ls -lrth Singularity.FMS-netcdf4.6.3.sif
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 Thomas.Robinson gfdl 612M Nov  2 14:12 Singularity.FMS-netcdf4.6.3.sif

Also, this is my first foray into the world of containers, so it's most likely some sort of user error.

[vsoch]

I’ve seen a similar issue with hanging on installing packages, and it was fixed with switching to a different builder. Can you try the other version of 3.4.2 and make sure you use a recipe in the root of the repository? You can also easily try the 2.5.1 builder.

[thomas-robinson]

Switching to 3.4.2 solved my build issue. Thanks for your help.