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@@ -108,3 +108,19 @@ After this point you can connect to the web ui of the ood node, typically via
 http://localhost/8080
 
 The default user name and password for the web UI is 'vagrant'.
+
+### Issues and Work arounds
+
+1. If you encounter an issue with OHPC node provisioning due to GPG key errors as mentioned in https://github.com/jprorama/CRI_XCBC/issues/77. Please run the below command as a work around from outside your VM:
+
+    `vagrant box update`
+
+2. After you run the above command if you were to get a `"kernel mismatch error"`. To get past this error please run the below commands:
+
+    `vagrant ssh ohpc`
+
+    `uname -r`
+
+    Copy and paste this kernel version in the group_vars/all to update the kernel version in the `build_kernel_ver` variable.
+
+3. If you encounter an issue with nodes_vivify role in updating the slurm status on nodes, specifically the error `slurm_update error: Invalid node state specified`. Please increase the compute node memory to 6GB in your Virtual Box.