Are you looking at the log/what appears on the screen, and do you know for a fact that it is all the way up (should say "version <whatever> started” at the end)?

If that’s not it, you could have a permissions thing or something.

I do not expect you’d need to extend the timeout for a normal run. I suspect it is doing something.

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On May 30, 2024, at 23:57, Radhouane Aniba <aradwen@gmail.com> wrote:

manually running it through sudo slurmdbd -D /path/to/conf is very quick on my fresh install

trying to start the slurmdbd through systemctl take 3 minutes and then crashes and fail

Is there an alternative to systemctl to start the slurmdbd in the background ?

But most importantly I wanted to know why it takes so long through systemctl. Maybe I can increase the timeout limit ?

On Thu, May 30, 2024 at 11:54 PM Ryan Novosielski <novosirj@rutgers.edu> wrote:
It may take longer to start than systemd allows for. How long does it take to start from the command line? It’s common to need to run it manually for upgrades to complete.

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On May 30, 2024, at 20:24, Radhouane Aniba via slurm-users <slurm-users@lists.schedmd.com> wrote:

Ok I made some progress here.

I removed and purged slurmdbd mysql mariadb etc .. and started from scratch.
I added the recommended mysqld requirements

Started slurmdbd manually : sudo slurmdbd -D /path/to/conf and everything worked well 

When I tried to start the service sudo systemctl start slurmdbd.service  it didnt work

sudo systemctl status  slurmdbd.service
● slurmdbd.service - Slurm DBD accounting daemon
     Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/slurmdbd.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: failed (Result: timeout) since Fri 2024-05-31 00:21:30 UTC; 2min 5s ago
    Process: 6258 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/slurmdbd -D /etc/slurm-llnl/slurmdbd.conf (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)

May 31 00:20:00 hannibal-hn systemd[1]: Starting Slurm DBD accounting daemon...
May 31 00:21:30 hannibal-hn systemd[1]: slurmdbd.service: start operation timed out. Terminating.
May 31 00:21:30 hannibal-hn systemd[1]: slurmdbd.service: Failed with result 'timeout'.
May 31 00:21:30 hannibal-hn systemd[1]: Failed to start Slurm DBD accounting daemon.

Even though it is the same command ?!

Any idea ?

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