diff --git a/.github/workflows/srt.yml b/.github/workflows/srt.yml
index 778ad346dee..f3b8c829272 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/srt.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/srt.yml
@@ -94,6 +94,6 @@ jobs:
 
 #     the following can be used by developers to login to the github server in case of errors
 #     see https://github.com/marketplace/actions/debugging-with-tmate for further details
-      - name: Setup tmate session
-        if: ${{ failure() }}
-        uses: mxschmitt/action-tmate@v3
+#      - name: Setup tmate session
+#        if: ${{ failure() }}
+#        uses: mxschmitt/action-tmate@v3
diff --git a/scripts/lib/CIME/XML/env_batch.py b/scripts/lib/CIME/XML/env_batch.py
index f652eb5fe4e..e38539424c9 100644
--- a/scripts/lib/CIME/XML/env_batch.py
+++ b/scripts/lib/CIME/XML/env_batch.py
@@ -697,8 +697,7 @@ def _submit_single_job(self, case, job, dep_jobs=None, allow_fail=False,
             return submitcmd
         else:
             logger.info("Submitting job script {}".format(submitcmd))
-#            output = run_cmd_no_fail(submitcmd, combine_output=True)
-            s, output, e = run_cmd(submitcmd, combine_output=True)
+            s, output, _ = run_cmd(submitcmd, combine_output=True)
             jobid = self.get_job_id(output)
             logger.info("Submitted job id is {}".format(jobid))
             return jobid