Hi there,

We've updated to 23.11.6 and replaced MUNGE with SACK.

Performance and stability have both been pretty good, but we're occasionally seeing this in the slurmctld.log

[2024-05-07T03:50:16.638] error: decode_jwt: token expired at 1715053769
[2024-05-07T03:50:16.638] error: cred_p_unpack: decode_jwt() failed
[2024-05-07T03:50:16.638] error: Malformed RPC of type REQUEST_BATCH_JOB_LAUNCH(4005) received
[2024-05-07T03:50:16.641] error: slurm_receive_msg_and_forward: [[headnode.internal]:58286] failed: Header lengths are longer than data received
[2024-05-07T03:50:16.648] error: service_connection: slurm_receive_msg: Header lengths are longer than data received


it seems to impact a subset of nodes: jobs get killed and no new ones are allocated.
Full functionality can be restored by simply restarting slurmctld first, and then slurmd.

Is the token expected to actually expire? I didn't see this possibility mentioned in the docs.

The problem occurs on an R&D cloud cluster based on EL9, with a pretty "flat" setup.
headnode: configless slurmctld, slurmdbd, mariadb, nfsd
elastic compute nodes: autofs, slurmd

/etc/slurm/slurm.conf
AuthType=auth/slurm
AuthInfo=use_client_ids
CredType=cred/slurm

/etc/slurm/slurmdbd.conf
AuthType=auth/slurm
AuthInfo=use_client_ids


Has anyone else encountered the same error?

Thanks,
Fabio

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Fabio Ranalli | Principal Systems Administrator

Schrödinger, Inc.