But in Condor 7.9.0, the negotiator is less tolerant of malformed entries in the =Accountantnew.log=. It will abort upon seeing one. The master will periodically attempt to restart the negotiator, and each time, the negotiator will abort and exit. As a result, no jobs will run in the local pool, as no matches will be made. -Condor version 7.8.5 (and future releases) will not produce these malformed entries and will remove them from the =Accountantnew.log=. Condor version 7.9.1 (and future releases) will not abort when reading malformed entries and will remove them from the =Accountantnew.log=. +Condor version 7.8.5 (and future releases) will not produce these malformed entries and will remove them from the =Accountantnew.log=. Condor version 7.9.2 (and future releases) will not abort when reading malformed entries and will remove them from the =Accountantnew.log=. Thus, upgrading from Condor 7.8.4 to 7.9.0 will render your pool unable to run jobs. But any other upgrade path is unaffected.