Edith Simmen

In this example, custodian indeed corrected somethng. But in other calculations I tried custodian didn't do any corrections and it still didn't update the database, so it seems like it's...

Yes, that's also what my coworker experienced. Unfortunately, with my calculation it happens every time so detect_lostruns is not so helpful :/

The vasp run usually finishes with plenty of time. The calculation takes something around 2h to finish but it has 12h available.

> @edansi, do the VASP calculation files get gzipped for the hanging calculation? no they don't get zipped.

@utf I ran the calculation, and the vasp calculation finished. How can I see if the custodian killed the VASP processes correctly? I get all the output files, a custodian.json...

@esoteric-ephemera thanks, i attached the custodian file and also the python code to submit. The file has neither errors nor actions, doesn't this mean that no errors occured? [custodian.json](https://github.com/user-attachments/files/16329571/custodian.json) ```...

@esoteric-ephemera i misunderstood your comment before, my last answer was refering to what @utf was suggesting. Yes in the custodian.json from my original example there's an action for the LargeSigmaHandler....

@esoteric-ephemera setting the environment variables doesn't change anything. I realized that one of my calculations at some point actually worked, so I tried to figure out what was different. When...

Thanks for helping me out, I really appreciate it :) I ran the code you suggested and it ends in a FIZZLED state with the following error message: ``` Traceback...

thanks! so, if i run the simple_job, it finishes without problems and the job changes to COMPLETED in the database :/ the problem doesn't seem to be there either. when...