<div dir="ltr">Hi all,<div><br></div><div>I installed slurm and enable accounting in a single-node machine, i.e same server is the master and computing node. I mainly followed this page for instructions:</div><div><a href="https://southgreenplatform.github.io/trainings/hpc/slurminstallation/">https://southgreenplatform.github.io/trainings/hpc/slurminstallation/</a></div><div>After enabling accounting I am having problems in starting slurmctld.service. <br></div><div>[root@mannose sushil]# cat /var/log/slurm/slurmctld.log <br>[2022-11-30T16:32:15.194] Job accounting information stored, but details not gathered<br>[2022-11-30T16:32:15.195] slurmctld version 20.11.9 started on cluster <a href="http://mannose.olemiss.edu">mannose.olemiss.edu</a><br>[2022-11-30T16:32:15.201] error: slurm_persist_conn_open_without_init: failed to open persistent connection to host:mannose:6819: Connection refused<br>[2022-11-30T16:32:15.201] error: Sending PersistInit msg: Connection refused<br>[2022-11-30T16:32:15.201] accounting_storage/slurmdbd: clusteracct_storage_p_register_ctld: Registering slurmctld at port 6817 with slurmdbd<br>[2022-11-30T16:32:15.203] error: Sending PersistInit msg: Connection refused<br>[2022-11-30T16:32:15.203] error: Association database appears down, reading from state file.<br>[2022-11-30T16:32:15.203] error: Unable to get any information from the state file<br>[2022-11-30T16:32:15.203] fatal: slurmdbd and/or database must be up at slurmctld start time<br></div><div><br></div><div>It is not clear why slurm port 8619 is being used while I have SlurmctldPort=6817 and SlurmdPort=6818 set in clurm.conf. anyways, I opened all three posrts (6817, 6818 and 6819) using  'firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-port=6819/tcp'</div><div><br></div><div>MariaDB [(none)]> show grants<br></div><div>    -> ;<br>+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+<br>| Grants for slurm@localhost                                                                                   |<br>+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+<br>| GRANT USAGE ON *.* TO 'slurm'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY PASSWORD '*0E54A04D59B6C9F7B7B6269BE7F30AD3E3409895' |<br>| GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON `slurm_acct_db`.* TO 'slurm'@'localhost' WITH GRANT OPTION                           |<br>+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+<br>2 rows in set (0.00 sec)<br><br>MariaDB [(none)]> quit<br></div><div><br></div><div>Can someone help in figuring out possibly what is going wrong? </div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>SK</div><div><br></div></div>