<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(11,83,148)">Hi Matt,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(11,83,148)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="Arial" style="text-align:start;text-indent:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font face="Arial"><font face="Arial"><font face="Arial" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">I hope your day is treating you well.<br><br></font><br><font face="Arial" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">Thank you for your posts on the Slurm user list. <span> </span></font><br><br><br><span style="font-size:12.8px">By chance, do you work with Paul Van Der Mark?</span></font></font></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="Arial" style="text-align:start;text-indent:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font face="Arial"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></font></font></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="Arial" style="text-align:start;text-indent:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font face="Arial"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br>Would there be interest on your side to see a Slurm support contract for your systems at </span></font></font></font><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:12.8px">FSU</span></font><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial;font-size:12.8px">?</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(11,83,148)"><font face="Arial" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font face="Arial"><font face="Arial"><br></font></font></font><font face="Arial" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font face="Arial">Sites running Slurm with support give us feedback that support is invaluable and a great return back to the organization with much better system utilization with optimized configs by our experts<span> </span></font></font><font face="Arial" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font face="Arial"><span class="gmail-m_-6044234129629131185font" style="font-family:Arial"><font face="Arial"><font face="Arial">(which pays for the support contract in and of itself)<span> </span></font></font></span>and their sites not having to rely on in-house best effort support hacks that get very expensive and turn into complicated chaos and potential down systems.</font></font><font face="Arial" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font face="Arial"><br></font></font><font face="Arial" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br><br><font face="Arial">Additionally, support keeps the Slurm project alive and going strong</font><span> </span> <span> </span><br><br><br>Please let me know your thoughts or if you would like me to reach out to another contact at FSU to chat about this further.</font><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 6:26 AM, Matt Hohmeister <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hohmeister@psy.fsu.edu" target="_blank">hohmeister@psy.fsu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">





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<p class="MsoNormal">I’m brand-new to Slurm, and setting it up on a single RHEL 7.4 VM as a proof of concept before I deploy it. After following the instructions on
<a href="https://www.slothparadise.com/how-to-install-slurm-on-centos-7-cluster/" target="_blank">
https://www.slothparadise.com/<wbr>how-to-install-slurm-on-<wbr>centos-7-cluster/</a> (sorry, site not working now), I can get slurmd to start perfectly, but slurmctld fails to start with the following
<span style="font-family:Consolas">journalctl -xe</span>; I was wondering if anyone has run into this or could shed some light on this…thanks in advance!<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in"><span style="font-family:Consolas">Apr 11 08:18:30 psy-slurm polkitd[680]: Registered Authentication Agent for unix-process:1779:31362 (system bus name :1.26 [/usr/bin/pkttyagent --notify-fd 5 --fallbac<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in"><span style="font-family:Consolas">Apr 11 08:18:30 psy-slurm systemd[1]: Starting Slurm controller daemon...<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in"><span style="font-family:Consolas">-- Subject: Unit slurmctld.service has begun start-up<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in"><span style="font-family:Consolas">-- Defined-By: systemd<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in"><span style="font-family:Consolas">-- Support: <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel" target="_blank">http://lists.freedesktop.org/<wbr>mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in"><span style="font-family:Consolas">--<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in"><span style="font-family:Consolas">-- Unit slurmctld.service has begun starting up.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in"><span style="font-family:Consolas">Apr 11 08:18:30 psy-slurm systemd[1]: PID file /var/run/slurmctld.pid not readable (yet?) after start.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in"><span style="font-family:Consolas">Apr 11 08:18:30 psy-slurm systemd[1]: Started Slurm controller daemon.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in"><span style="font-family:Consolas">-- Subject: Unit slurmctld.service has finished start-up<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in"><span style="font-family:Consolas">-- Defined-By: systemd<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in"><span style="font-family:Consolas">-- Support: <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel" target="_blank">http://lists.freedesktop.org/<wbr>mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in"><span style="font-family:Consolas">-- Unit slurmctld.service has finished starting up.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in"><span style="font-family:Consolas">--<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in"><span style="font-family:Consolas">-- The start-up result is done.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in"><span style="font-family:Consolas">Apr 11 08:18:30 psy-slurm polkitd[680]: Unregistered Authentication Agent for unix-process:1779:31362 (system bus name :1.26, object path /org/freedesktop/PolicyKit1/A<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in"><span style="font-family:Consolas">Apr 11 08:18:30 psy-slurm slurmctld[1787]: fatal: Incorrect permissions on state save loc: /var/spool<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in"><span style="font-family:Consolas">Apr 11 08:18:30 psy-slurm systemd[1]: slurmctld.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in"><span style="font-family:Consolas">Apr 11 08:18:30 psy-slurm systemd[1]: Unit slurmctld.service entered failed state.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in"><span style="font-family:Consolas">Apr 11 08:18:30 psy-slurm systemd[1]: slurmctld.service failed.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Matt Hohmeister<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Department of Psychology<u></u><u></u></p>
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