[slurm-users] salloc not starting shell despite LaunchParameters=use_interactive_step

Hi,

With

$ salloc --version slurm 23.11.10

and

$ grep LaunchParameters /etc/slurm/slurm.conf LaunchParameters=use_interactive_step

the following

$ salloc --partition=interactive --ntasks=1 --time=00:03:00 --mem=1000 --qos=standard salloc: Granted job allocation 18928869 salloc: Nodes c001 are ready for job

creates a job

$ squeue --me JOBID PARTITION NAME USER ST TIME NODES NODELIST(REASON) 18928779 interacti interact loris R 1:05 1 c001

but causes the terminal to block.

From a second terminal I can log into the compute node:

$ ssh c001 [13:39:36] loris@c001 (1000) ~

Is that the expected behaviour or should salloc return a shell directly on the compute node (like srun --pty /bin/bash -l used to do)?

Cheers,

Loris