I know this doesn't particularly help you, but for me on 23.11.6 it works as expected and immediately drops me onto the allocated node. In answer to your question, yes, as I understand it the default/expected behavior is to return the shell directly.

Jason

On Thu, Sep 5, 2024 at 8:18 AM Loris Bennett via slurm-users <slurm-users@lists.schedmd.com> wrote:

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

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Dr. Loris Bennett (Herr/Mr)
FUB-IT, Freie Universität Berlin

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