Hi Erik,

Thanks for your suggestion. I was doing a sim run because I get this error when I start a new simulation doing a 'submit' on my cluster "Executing submit command: exec nohup <sim directory address>". Which made me think 'submit' cannot be used when submitting a job to a cluster; rather it can be used only when running a sim on the front end (to hide the output from the terminal).

Anyway, now as I am doing a restart using 'submit' I am getting these messages and then the simulation stops.
Warning: Simulation nsnstohmns_low_resolution_Marronetti already has an active submission. Chaining this submission onto job id 999999
Warning: job status is U
Warning: Job chaining requested but job id 999999 is not in the queue. Its status is U. Aborting submission.

I guess the issue is with the "status is U" part now.

Best regards,
Atul.

On Sat, Aug 15, 2020 at 8:57 PM Erik Schnetter <schnetter@cct.lsu.edu> wrote:
Atul

"sim run" starts a simulation right away. Have you tried "sim submit"
instead? This should check whether the simulation is still active, and
if so, deactivate it before running the next restart.

-erik

On Sat, Aug 15, 2020 at 7:54 PM Atul Kedia <akedia@nd.edu> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I want to restart a simulation to make it run for longer. It currently stopped at the time it was asked it at my par file. It has checkpoints enabled in the par file.
>
> I have increased the time in the par file at <sim_name>/output-0000/ and at  <sim_name>/SIMFACTORY/par and I tried the commands :
>
> simfactory/bin/sim cleanup <sim_name>
> followed by
> simfactory/bin/sim run <sim_name>
> and set the added a line "jobid = 999999" as suggested at : http://lists.einsteintoolkit.org/pipermail/users/2018-September/006528.html
>
> and I get the error message :
> "Error: Internal error: Cannot submit simulation <sim_name> because it is already active"
>
> Another email thread I used for reference was this one: http://lists.einsteintoolkit.org/pipermail/users/2018-May/006281.html
>
> I am using ET_Mayer with the default simfactory that it comes with (simfactory 2, I think).
>
> Any help would be really appreciated.
>
> Thank you,
>
> --
> Atul Kedia
> PhD student,
> Physics department,
> University of Notre Dame.
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Atul Kedia
PhD student,
Physics department,
University of Notre Dame.