<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default"><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Hi everyone,<br></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">I am having trouble getting <i>slurmdbd</i> to work. This is the error I get:</span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><i>error: Couldn't find the specified plugin name for accounting_storage/mysql looking at all files<br>error: cannot find accounting_storage plugin for accounting_storage/mysql<br>error: cannot create accounting_storage context for accounting_storage/mysql<br>fatal: Unable to initialize accounting_storage/mysql accounting storage plugin</i></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">I have installed <i>mysql</i> (<i>apt install mysql</i>) on Ubuntu 20.04.03 and followed the instructions on the slurm <a href="https://slurm.schedmd.com/accounting.html" target="_blank">website</a>; <i>mysql</i> is running (<i>port 3306</i>) and these are the relevant parts in my <i>.conf</i> files: <br></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><i>slurm.conf</i><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"># LOGGING AND ACCOUNTING<br>AccountingStorageHost=</span><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">localhost<br>AccountingStoragePort=3306<br>AccountingStorageType=</span><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">accounting_storage/slurmdbd<br>AccountingStorageUser=slurm<br>JobCompType=jobcomp/none<br>JobAcctGatherFrequency=30<br>JobAcctGatherType=jobacct_</span><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">gather/linux<br>SlurmctldDebug=info<br>SlurmctldLogFile=/var/log/</span><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">slurmctld.log<br>SlurmdDebug=info<br>SlurmdLogFile=/var/log/slurmd.</span><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">log</span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><i>slurmdbd.conf</i><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">AuthType=auth/munge<br>DbdAddr=localhost<br>DbdHost=localhost<br>DbdPort=3306<br>LogFile=/var/log/slurmdbd.log<br>PidFile=/var/run/slurmdbd.pid<br>PluginDir=/usr/lib/slurm<br>SlurmUser=slurm<br>StoragePass=password<br>StorageType=accounting_</span><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">storage/mysql<br>StorageUser=slurm <br>StorageLoc=slurm_acct_db</span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">I changed the port to 3306 because otherwise <i>slurmdbd </i>could not communicate with <i>mysql</i>. If I run <i>sacct</i>, for example, I get:</span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><i>sacct: error: _slurm_persist_recv_msg: read of fd 3 failed: No error<br>sacct: error: _slurm_persist_recv_msg: only read 126 of 2616 bytes<br>sacct: error: slurm_persist_conn_open: No response to persist_init<br>sacct: error: Sending PersistInit msg: No error<br>JobID           JobName  Partition    Account  AllocCPUS      State ExitCode <br>------------ ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- -------- <br>sacct: error: _slurm_persist_recv_msg: read of fd 3 failed: No error<br>sacct: error: _slurm_persist_recv_msg: only read 126 of 2616 bytes<br>sacct: error: Sending PersistInit msg: No error<br>sacct: error: DBD_GET_JOBS_COND failure: Unspecified error</i></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><i><br></i></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Does anyone have a suggestion to solve this problem? Thank you very much.</span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Best,</span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Giuseppe</span></div></div></div>