Ole, I had not made that connection yet ... The required part. Could be documented a bit more clearly, if true.

Small institutions like us are not interested in managing slurm accounts and projects. Also weird that job Reason changes from InvalidAccount to None in minutes but job is not released. While sinfo reports partition is available to Group 'all'

-Henk
From: Ole Holm Nielsen via slurm-users <slurm-users@lists.schedmd.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2024 2:23 AM
To: slurm-users@lists.schedmd.com <slurm-users@lists.schedmd.com>
Subject: [External] [slurm-users] Re: InvalidAccount
 
On 11/11/24 21:39, Ole Holm Nielsen wrote:
> Hi Henk,
>
> On 11-11-2024 20:06, hmeij--- via slurm-users wrote:
>  > Manual compilation of 24.05.4. slurmctld and slurmd run on same server.
> All works ok but all test jobs end up pending with InvalidAccount message.
> I do not use slurm database and have not enabled accounting. Can not find
> an answer for this behavior or a misconfiguration. slurm.conf file was
> generated using easy config tool. Any ideas how to fix this? Thx,
>
> In the slurm.conf manual page for 24.05 the accounting options are listed:
>
>> AccountingStorageType
>> The accounting storage mechanism type. Acceptable values at present
>> "accounting_storage/slurmdbd".  The "accounting_storage/slurmdbd" value
>> indicates that accounting records will be written to the Slurm DBD,
>> which manages an underlying MySQL database. See "man slurmdbd"  for 
>> more  information.
>> When this is not set it indicates that account records are not maintained.
>
> In other words, the use of slurmdbd seems to be *required* as of Slurm
> 24.05!  The use of AccountingStorageType=accounting_storage/none seems to
> be deprecated, but I can't offhand find this to be documented.  Can anyone
> else help?

It seems that accounting_storage/none was removed (deprecated) from 23.11,
but it was still documented until 23.02:

https://github.com/SchedMD/slurm/blob/slurm-23.02/doc/man/man5/slurm.conf.5#L210

Note that in 22.05 the "accounting_storage/none" still implied that
account records would not work, as you have experienced when getting
InvalidAccount messages:

> The default value is "accounting_storage/none" and indicates that account
> records are not maintained.

IHTH,
Ole


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