I am trying to use Julia on an HPC cluster. However, when I try to add any packages, I get the error message below. The same error happens with any command in Pkg (status, activate environment, add). When I launch Julia and use Pkg in the login node, everything works fine, but when I do the same thing on a compute node, the error appears. Other users on the same machine do not have this problem, so it seems to be related to my account.
It happens in multiple versions of Julia (1.7, 1.9, 1.10 and 1.11), both when I install Julia locally in the login node with juliaup and when I load the julia module that is available on the cluster.
Why does this error appear and how can I solve it?
pkg> add Interpolations
ERROR: IOError: close: i/o error (EIO)
Stacktrace:
[1] uv_error
@ ./libuv.jl:106 [inlined]
[2] close
@ ./filesystem.jl:210 [inlined]
[3] close(lock::FileWatching.Pidfile.LockMonitor)
@ FileWatching.Pidfile ~/.julia/juliaup/julia-1.11.4+0.x64.linux.gnu/share/julia/stdlib/v1.11/FileWatching/src/pidfile.jl:345
[4] mkpidlock(f::Pkg.Types.var"#52#55"{String, String, Dates.DateTime, String}, at::String, pid::Int32; kwopts::@Kwargs{stale_age::Int64})
@ FileWatching.Pidfile ~/.julia/juliaup/julia-1.11.4+0.x64.linux.gnu/share/julia/stdlib/v1.11/FileWatching/src/pidfile.jl:97
[5] mkpidlock
@ ~/.julia/juliaup/julia-1.11.4+0.x64.linux.gnu/share/julia/stdlib/v1.11/FileWatching/src/pidfile.jl:92 [inlined]
[6] mkpidlock
@ ~/.julia/juliaup/julia-1.11.4+0.x64.linux.gnu/share/julia/stdlib/v1.11/FileWatching/src/pidfile.jl:90 [inlined]
[7] write_env_usage(source_file::String, usage_filepath::String)
@ Pkg.Types ~/.julia/juliaup/julia-1.11.4+0.x64.linux.gnu/share/julia/stdlib/v1.11/Pkg/src/Types.jl:534
[8] Pkg.Types.EnvCache(env::Nothing)
@ Pkg.Types ~/.julia/juliaup/julia-1.11.4+0.x64.linux.gnu/share/julia/stdlib/v1.11/Pkg/src/Types.jl:372
[9] EnvCache
@ ~/.julia/juliaup/julia-1.11.4+0.x64.linux.gnu/share/julia/stdlib/v1.11/Pkg/src/Types.jl:351 [inlined]
[10] Context
@ ~/.julia/juliaup/julia-1.11.4+0.x64.linux.gnu/share/julia/stdlib/v1.11/Pkg/src/Types.jl:401 [inlined]
[11] add(pkgs::Vector{Pkg.Types.PackageSpec}; io::IOContext{IO}, kwargs::@Kwargs{})
@ Pkg.API ~/.julia/juliaup/julia-1.11.4+0.x64.linux.gnu/share/julia/stdlib/v1.11/Pkg/src/API.jl:150
[12] add(pkgs::Vector{Pkg.Types.PackageSpec})
@ Pkg.API ~/.julia/juliaup/julia-1.11.4+0.x64.linux.gnu/share/julia/stdlib/v1.11/Pkg/src/API.jl:148
[13] do_cmd(command::Pkg.REPLMode.Command, io::Base.TTY)
@ Pkg.REPLMode ~/.julia/juliaup/julia-1.11.4+0.x64.linux.gnu/share/julia/stdlib/v1.11/Pkg/src/REPLMode/REPLMode.jl:407
[14] do_cmds(commands::Vector{Pkg.REPLMode.Command}, io::Base.TTY)
@ Pkg.REPLMode ~/.julia/juliaup/julia-1.11.4+0.x64.linux.gnu/share/julia/stdlib/v1.11/Pkg/src/REPLMode/REPLMode.jl:393
[15] do_cmds(repl::REPL.LineEditREPL, commands::String)
@ REPLExt ~/.julia/juliaup/julia-1.11.4+0.x64.linux.gnu/share/julia/stdlib/v1.11/Pkg/ext/REPLExt/REPLExt.jl:92
[16] on_done(s::REPL.LineEdit.MIState, buf::IOBuffer, ok::Bool, repl::REPL.LineEditREPL)
@ REPLExt ~/.julia/juliaup/julia-1.11.4+0.x64.linux.gnu/share/julia/stdlib/v1.11/Pkg/ext/REPLExt/REPLExt.jl:106
[17] #invokelatest#2
@ ./essentials.jl:1055 [inlined]
[18] invokelatest
@ ./essentials.jl:1052 [inlined]
[19] (::REPLExt.var"#47#50"{REPL.LineEditREPL})(s::REPL.LineEdit.MIState, buf::IOBuffer, ok::Bool)
@ REPLExt ~/.julia/juliaup/julia-1.11.4+0.x64.linux.gnu/share/julia/stdlib/v1.11/Pkg/ext/REPLExt/REPLExt.jl:128
[20] #invokelatest#2
@ ./essentials.jl:1055 [inlined]
[21] invokelatest
@ ./essentials.jl:1052 [inlined]
[22] run_interface(terminal::REPL.Terminals.TextTerminal, m::REPL.LineEdit.ModalInterface, s::REPL.LineEdit.MIState)
@ REPL.LineEdit ~/.julia/juliaup/julia-1.11.4+0.x64.linux.gnu/share/julia/stdlib/v1.11/REPL/src/LineEdit.jl:2755
[23] run_frontend(repl::REPL.LineEditREPL, backend::REPL.REPLBackendRef)
@ REPL ~/.julia/juliaup/julia-1.11.4+0.x64.linux.gnu/share/julia/stdlib/v1.11/REPL/src/REPL.jl:1474
[24] (::REPL.var"#75#81"{REPL.LineEditREPL, REPL.REPLBackendRef})()
@ REPL ~/.julia/juliaup/julia-1.11.4+0.x64.linux.gnu/share/julia/stdlib/v1.11/REPL/src/REPL.jl:480