EMS Compression Error

[vahid-dan]

While the jobs are done, EMS happened to be unable to finalize the results and the experiment completion got stuck in 98%. A sudo systemctl restart ems.service recovered the results; But, the output compressed files seams corrupted.

On the Submit Node:

● ems.service - Experiment management service to support GWS
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/ems.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (running) since Tue 2017-07-04 12:09:39 EDT; 6 days ago
 Main PID: 281976 (python)
    Tasks: 8
   Memory: 33.2G
      CPU: 6d 8h 32min 30.252s
   CGroup: /system.slice/ems.service
           ├─281976 /usr/bin/python ems.py
           ├─488301 perl /usr/bin/parallel -P 2 tar jxf ::: Results62.tar.bz2 Results178.tar.bz2 Results181.tar.bz2 Results205.tar.bz2 Results7.tar.bz2 Results20.tar.bz2 Results172.tar.bz2 Results50.tar.b
           ├─488603 tar jxf Results77.tar.bz2
           ├─488604 bzip2 -d
           ├─488607 tar jxf Results98.tar.bz2
           └─488608 bzip2 -d

Jul 10 12:53:50 graple-Submit python[281976]:         perhaps it is corrupted?  *Possible* reason follows.
Jul 10 12:53:50 graple-Submit python[281976]: bzip2: Inappropriate ioctl for device
Jul 10 12:53:50 graple-Submit python[281976]:         Input file = (stdin), output file = (stdout)
Jul 10 12:53:50 graple-Submit python[281976]: It is possible that the compressed file(s) have become corrupted.
Jul 10 12:53:50 graple-Submit python[281976]: You can use the -tvv option to test integrity of such files.
Jul 10 12:53:50 graple-Submit python[281976]: You can use the `bzip2recover' program to attempt to recover
Jul 10 12:53:50 graple-Submit python[281976]: data from undamaged sections of corrupted files.
Jul 10 12:53:50 graple-Submit python[281976]: tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
Jul 10 12:53:50 graple-Submit python[281976]: tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
Jul 10 12:53:50 graple-Submit python[281976]: tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

On RStudio Console after Attempting to Download the Results:

gzip: results.tar.gz: unexpected end of file
gzip: results.tar.gz: uncompress failed
Sims/Sim78_1/Results/output.nc: Truncated tar archive
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors.
Warning message:
In untar("results.tar.gz") :
  ‘/usr/bin/gzip -dc 'results.tar.gz' | /usr/bin/tar -xf '-'’ returned error code 1