Condor 7.8.4 contains a bug that causes the negotiator daemon to write malformed entries in its =Accountantnew.log=. When the negotiator reads the =Accountantnew.log= on startup, it will abort upon seeing one of these malformed entries. This page describes how to deal with this problem.

{subsection: Upgrade}

Condor 7.8.5 will include a fix where the negotiator no longer produces these entries and automatically fixes them when read. Once 7.8.5 is released, you can upgrade your central manager machine. No further action will be required.

{subsection: Partial Downgrade}

The other option is to downgrade your negotiator daemon to Condor 7.8.3, which does not contain this bug, and then fix your =Accountantnew.log= to remove any existing malformed entries.

You can download Condor 7.8.3 from the Condor downloads page (http://research.cs.wisc.edu/condor/downloads-v2/download.pl).

You'll need to extract the 7.8.3 package, copy the =condor_negotiator= and =libcondor_utils_7_8_3.so= files into your installation directory, get Condor using the new negotiator binary, and clean the =Accountantnew.log=.

Here is a sample set of unix commands to use if you installed Condor from the tarball package into =/opt/condor=:

{code}
% tar xvf condor-7.8.3-x86_64_rhap_6.3-stripped.tar.gz
% cp condor-7.8.3-x86_64_rhap_6.3-stripped/sbin/condor_negotiator /opt/condor/sbin/condor_negotiator.new
% cp condor-7.8.3-x86_64_rhap_6.3-stripped/lib/libcondor_utils_7_8_3.so /opt/condor/lib
% vi /opt/condor/local.foo/condor_config.local
# Add 'NEGOTIATOR=$(SBIN)/condor_negotiator.783'
% condor_reconfig
% condor_off -negotiator
% sed -i -e 's/< /</g' -e 's/ , /,/g' -e 's/ >/>/g' /opt/condor/local.foo/spool/Accountantnew.log
% condor_on -negotiator
% rm -rf condor-7.8.3-x86_64_rhap_6.3-stripped
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Here is a sample set of unix commands to use if you installed Condor from the RPM package on a 64-bit machine:

{code}
% mkdir /tmp/783
% cd /tmp/783
% rpm2cpio /tmp/condor-7.8.3-62667.rhel6.3.x86_64.rpm | cpio -idmv
% cp usr/sbin/condor_negotiator /usr/sbin/condor_negotiator.new
% cp usr/lib64/condor/libcondor_utils_7_8_3.so /usr/lib64/condor
% vi /etc/condor/condor_config.local
# Add 'NEGOTIATOR=$(SBIN)/condor_negotiator.783'
% condor_reconfig
% condor_off -negotiator
% sed -i -e 's/< /</g' -e 's/ , /,/g' -e 's/ >/>/g' /var/lib/condor/spool/Accountantnew.log
% condor_on -negotiator
% cd ..
% rm -rf 783
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Note: Once you upgrade Condor to 7.8.5 or beyond, you'll want to remove the =condor_negotiator.new= and =libcondor_utils_7_8_3.so= files, and remove the added NEGOTIATOR line from the config file.