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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/">
https://www.slothparadise.com/how-to-install-slurm-on-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!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.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<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Consolas">Apr 11 08:18:30 psy-slurm systemd[1]: Starting Slurm controller daemon...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Consolas">-- Subject: Unit slurmctld.service has begun start-up<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Consolas">-- Defined-By: systemd<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Consolas">-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Consolas">--<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Consolas">-- Unit slurmctld.service has begun starting up.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Consolas">Apr 11 08:18:30 psy-slurm systemd[1]: Started Slurm controller daemon.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Consolas">-- Subject: Unit slurmctld.service has finished start-up<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Consolas">-- Defined-By: systemd<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Consolas">-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Consolas">--<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Consolas">-- Unit slurmctld.service has finished starting up.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Consolas">--<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Consolas">-- The start-up result is done.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.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<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Consolas">Apr 11 08:18:30 psy-slurm slurmctld[1787]: fatal: Incorrect permissions on state save loc: /var/spool<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.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<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Consolas">Apr 11 08:18:30 psy-slurm systemd[1]: Unit slurmctld.service entered failed state.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Consolas">Apr 11 08:18:30 psy-slurm systemd[1]: slurmctld.service failed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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