<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif">Greetings --</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif">My experience this morning includes the following (where there is about 10 min:</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace">[mrd20@hpctest ~]$ sacctmgr show association where account=<userid><br>sacctmgr: error: slurmdbd: Getting response to message type 1410<br>sacctmgr: error: slurmdbd: DBD_GET_ASSOCS failure: No error<br> Error with request: No error</span></div></blockquote><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif">This seems to be a 'time-out' error, but I have no insight into why the database would be unable to respond over the course of 10 minutes or so.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif">Otherwise, sacctmgr will return for "sacctmgr show account..." or other type of queries. Only show associations seems affected.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif">Now, to the suspected cause:<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif">Just prior to this, I had submitted an incorrect formulation of the 'sacctmgr delete user <usrid>', as follows, where the specific userid is omitted:</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace">[root@hpc2 mrd20]# sacctmgr delete user where account=txl80<br> Deleting user associations...<br> C = hpctest A = <accid> U = <usrid1> <br> C = hpctest A = <accid> U = <usrid2> <br>...</span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace">...</span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace">...<br></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace"> C = hpctest A = <accid> U = <usrid16> <br> C = hpctest A = <accid> U = <usrid17> <br> Deleting users (No Associations)...<br></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace"> <usrid1><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace"> <usrid2><br> User <usrid3> on cluster hpctest no longer has a default account.<br> ...</span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace"> ...</span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace"> ...</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace"> <usrid10><br> <usrid11></span><br clear="all"></div></blockquote><br><div style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">this action was terminated by 'Ctrl-C'</div><div style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">Two noteworthy items</div><div style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">-- I had meant to operate on just one user association; and,<br></div><div style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">-- The command did not issue the expected prompt to verify that I wanted to perform these deletions.</div><div style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">Since this occurred, the time-out with 'sacctmgr show assoc....' has resolved, and it would seem that the associations were not impacted. <br></div><div style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">The most important questions to me remain: could the interrupted 'delete user' have "hung" sacctmgr access to the slurmdb? And if so, what is going on behind the scenes? I'd like to come away with better insight into how the slurmdb operates. Pointers to slurmdb tutorials or slide decks are welcome ;)<br></div><br><div style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">Best wishes, and thanks in advance</div><div style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">~ Em</div><br><br>-- <br><div class="m_-1862986031570397621gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small">E.M. Dragowsky, Ph.D.</span><br></div><div><font size="2" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">Research Computing -- UTech</font></div><div><font size="2" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">Case Western Reserve University<br></font></div><div><font size="2" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><a href="tel:(216)%20368-0082" value="+12163680082" target="_blank">(216) 368-0082</a></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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