AliceO2Group · matthias-kleiner · Jul 31, 2026
@@ -353,7 +353,12 @@ Then:
 
 This downloads the *existing* manifest stage 1 already uploaded (does not rebuild it — see the comment in
 the script for why that matters), re-stages the three macros if `MACRO_SOURCE=alien`, and submits one
-production, same slot granularity as stage 1.
+production, same slot granularity as stage 1. It also captures and uploads its own workdir pointer,
+`stage2Workdir.<JOBNAME>.txt`, to `MACRO_ALIEN_DIR` — the same mechanism stage 1 uses for its own output
+(see Step 3), so an external consumer that needs to locate a specific slot's final `FT_*.root`/smoothed
+map (e.g. a downstream pipeline using this stage's output as an input) can reconstruct the path the same
+way stage 2 itself reconstructs stage 1's — read `stage2Workdir.<JOBNAME>.txt` for the base, recompute
+`COUNTERWIDTH` from this submission's manifest line count, join with the zero-padded subjob index.
 
 **Local single-slot test:**
 

@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ MACRO_ALIEN_DIR_BARE=${MACRO_ALIEN_DIR_BARE:-}
 # expect to change it in the wrapper when the data changes -- not here. Empty ("") is a supported value
 # meaning "skip bad-ranges filtering entirely for this submission" -- see BAD_RANGES_ARG below.
 BAD_RANGES_NAME=${BAD_RANGES_NAME:-Merge_BadIntervals_LHC26_PbPb_DCA-0P300.txt}
-#JDL_OUTPUT=*.log@disk=1,*.txt@disk=1,*.info@disk=1
+#JDL_OUTPUT=*.log@disk=2,*.txt@disk=2,*.info@disk=2
 #JDL_REQUIRE={member(other.GridPartitions,"multicore_8") && (other.CE != "ALICE::NIHAM::PBS64") && (other.CE != "ALICE::KISTI_GSDC::LCG") && (other.CE != "ALICE::SaoPaulo::LCG")};
 # Site blacklist: these three CEs excluded from this pipeline's jobs. Setting #JDL_REQUIRE overrides
 # grid_submit.sh's own default Requirements entirely (it's read verbatim, not merged -- see

@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ STAGE1_OUTPUTDIR_BASE=
 COUNTERWIDTH=3
 MACRO_SOURCE=official
 MACRO_ALIEN_DIR_BARE=${MACRO_ALIEN_DIR_BARE:-}
-#JDL_OUTPUT=*.log@disk=1,*.txt@disk=1,*.png@disk=1
+#JDL_OUTPUT=*.log@disk=2,*.txt@disk=2,*.png@disk=2
 #JDL_REQUIRE={member(other.GridPartitions,"multicore_8") && (other.CE != "ALICE::NIHAM::PBS64") && (other.CE != "ALICE::KISTI_GSDC::LCG") && (other.CE != "ALICE::SaoPaulo::LCG")};
 # Site blacklist -- same three CEs excluded as stage 1, see that script's comment for why the
 # GridPartitions clause has to be repeated here (grid_submit.sh replaces its whole default Requirements,
@@ -215,6 +215,11 @@ echo "${STAGE1_OUTPUT_LOCATION}/${STAGE1_OUTPUT_FILE}" > "${STAGE1_SOURCE_FILE}"
 if ! alien.py cp -f "file:${STAGE1_SOURCE_FILE}" "${ALIEN_OUTPUT_DIR}/${STAGE1_SOURCE_FILE}"; then
   echo "WARNING: failed to stage ${STAGE1_SOURCE_FILE} -- provenance pointer only, not fatal" >&2
 fi
+# Remove the local copy now that it's staged: it matches the #JDL_OUTPUT *.txt glob above, and the
+# JobAgent's own passive upload of that glob (run after this script exits) does a plain, non-forced
+# cp -- it would otherwise collide with the LFN this explicit -f upload just created and put the
+# whole subjob into ERROR_SV, even though the actual deliverable upload above succeeded.
+rm -f "${STAGE1_SOURCE_FILE}"
 
 # --- QA plots (voxResQA.C) -- runs on just this one slot's smoothed map, same per-slot granularity as
 # everything else in this pipeline. Non-fatal on failure: QA is a diagnostic nice-to-have, not a blocking

@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ TOPWORKDIR="MapCreation"   # replaces grid_submit.sh's generic default "selfjobs
                            # like the real input data's own convention (.../2026/LHC26ak/572244/...) --
                            # that needs a real post-processing/organize step, deliberately deferred to a
                            # later iteration of this pipeline.
-PACKAGESPEC="O2::daily-20260729-0000-1"
+PACKAGESPEC="O2::daily-20260730-0000-1"
 ASUSER="pwg_pp"        # your own account = personal quota. "pwg_pp" = charged to that working group's quota AND
                        # moves MY_JOBWORKDIR/OutputDir to pwg_pp's own space automatically -- see the
                        # long comment above for why this one value now does everything. NOTE support

@@ -32,6 +32,13 @@
 # script doesn't need its own OutputDir logic, it just needs to read/write consistently with whatever
 # stage 1 did.
 #
+# This wrapper also captures and uploads ITS OWN workdir pointer (stage2Workdir.<JOBNAME>.txt), the same
+# way stage 1 does for its own output -- nothing inside this pipeline needed that before (stage 2 is the
+# end of the line here), but an external consumer that needs to locate a specific slot's final
+# FT_*.root/smoothed map (e.g. a downstream pipeline using it as an input) has no other way to find it,
+# since it also lands in an ephemeral ${ALIEN_JDL_OUTPUTDIR}, not a fixed path. Purely additive: this
+# stage's own control flow and outputs are unchanged, it just also records where they went.
+#
 # Usage:
 #   ./submitPostProcess.sh
 
@@ -49,7 +56,7 @@ STAGE1_JOBNAME_TAG="mapcreation-v1"        # must equal the JOBNAME stage 1 (sub
                                            # actually submitted with -- that's what determined where
                                            # stage 1 staged its map.
 TOPWORKDIR="MapCreation"
-PACKAGESPEC="O2::daily-20260729-0000-1"
+PACKAGESPEC="O2::daily-20260730-0000-1"
 ASUSER="pwg_pp"        # see the long comment above -- your own account for personal quota, "pwg_pp" for group
                        # quota (this stage's own submission; independent of what stage 1 used).
 MACRO_SOURCE="official" # same meaning/default as stage 1 (submitMapCreation.sh) -- applies
@@ -104,7 +111,8 @@ COUNTERWIDTH=${#N}
 
 TMP_SCRIPT="$(mktemp)"
 TMP_WORKDIR_POINTER="$(mktemp)"
-trap 'rm -f "${TMP_MANIFEST}" "${TMP_SCRIPT:-}" "${TMP_WORKDIR_POINTER}"' EXIT
+TMP_STAGE2_WORKDIR_POINTER="$(mktemp)"
+trap 'rm -f "${TMP_MANIFEST}" "${TMP_SCRIPT:-}" "${TMP_WORKDIR_POINTER}" "${TMP_STAGE2_WORKDIR_POINTER}"' EXIT
 
 # ONE submission, mirroring stage 1: the windows live in the manifest, so a subjob index identifies a
 # (run, window) pair by itself and there is nothing to loop over.
@@ -142,4 +150,22 @@ GRID_SUBMIT_ARGS=(
 )
 
 echo "== Submitting ${JOBNAME} (prodsplit=${N}, asuser=${ASUSER}) =="
-"${O2DPG_ROOT}/GRID/utils/grid_submit.sh" "${GRID_SUBMIT_ARGS[@]}"
+# Capture grid_submit.sh's own stderr (its "pok" status messages go there) while still showing it live,
+# so we can pull out the one line that tells us where this submission's data will actually land -- same
+# mechanism submitMapCreation.sh uses for its own stage1Workdir pointer. Nothing downstream needed
+# stage 2's own output location before now; this exists so a future consumer (e.g. a pipeline that reads
+# stage 2's FT_*.root as an input) can find it without guessing.
+SUBMIT_LOG=$("${O2DPG_ROOT}/GRID/utils/grid_submit.sh" "${GRID_SUBMIT_ARGS[@]}" 2>&1 | tee /dev/stderr)
+
+# Strip ANSI color codes (pok() wraps its output in \033[32m...\033[m) before parsing.
+MY_JOBWORKDIR=$(echo "${SUBMIT_LOG}" | sed -E 's/\x1b\[[0-9;]*m//g' | sed -n "s/^Your job's working directory will be //p" | tail -1)
+if [[ -z "${MY_JOBWORKDIR}" ]]; then
+  echo "ERROR: could not find \"Your job's working directory will be ...\" in grid_submit.sh's output -- a future consumer of this stage's output won't be able to find it. Aborting." >&2
+  exit 1
+fi
+echo "== MY_JOBWORKDIR (stage 2's own) = ${MY_JOBWORKDIR} =="
+
+STAGE2_WORKDIR_POINTER_NAME="stage2Workdir.${JOBNAME}.txt"
+echo "${MY_JOBWORKDIR}" > "${TMP_STAGE2_WORKDIR_POINTER}"
+alien.py cp -f "file:${TMP_STAGE2_WORKDIR_POINTER}" "${MACRO_ALIEN_DIR}/${STAGE2_WORKDIR_POINTER_NAME}"
+echo "== Uploaded ${STAGE2_WORKDIR_POINTER_NAME} =="