[slurm-users] Fwd: Problem installing slurm on computer cluster

[Bruno Santos]

Thank you everyone. I seem to have sorted and it was indeed some system
config left.
And John yes I agree with you and good to see the strategy of having them
installed on a network share is the one I was thinking of following. Will
probably keep a centralized apt-cache to make sure all the libs installed
with apt-get are the same across the cluster so there are no issues using
the manually installed software in the shared folder.

On 16 November 2017 at 14:02, John Hearns <hearnsj at gmail.com> wrote:

> Forgive me for saying this. I do have a bit of experience in building HPC
> systems.
> Distro supplied software packages have improved a lot over the years.
> But they do tend to be out of date compared to the latest versions of
> (say) Slurm.
> I really would say you should consider downloading and installing from the
> vendors site.
> The same thing goes for compilers, MPI, and many software packages.
>
> Yes, the distro supplied debs or RPMs are easy to install and will be
> tested against that distro.
> But (again) they will eb installed locally on the nodes. So again with
> compilers, MPI , Python modules....
> you tend to instlal these on a network shared drive so that you have one
> central install.
>
>
>
>
>
> On 16 November 2017 at 14:47, E V <eliventer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> You may need to install a systemd override file if you have some of
>> the system config left over, it has the path set to /usr/bin/. Example
>> for slurmd, slurmctld and slurmdbd are the same just changing the
>> names:
>>
>> cat /etc/systemd/system/slurmd.service.d/override.conf
>> [Service]
>> ExecStart=
>> ExecStart=/usr/local/sbin/slurmd $SLURMD_OPTIONS
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 12:37 PM, Bruno Santos <bacmsantos at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi everyone,
>> >
>> > I am currently trying to install slurm to serve as a job scheduler for a
>> > research institute. I have installed Debian stretch and initially
>> installed
>> > and configured slurm from the repos.
>> > HoweverI then tried to play with a different server serving as node and
>> > realized that due to the different versions of debian the controller
>> and the
>> > daemon where running different versions of slurm and so not working.
>> > I have since done apt-get remove --purge and tried to install slurm from
>> > src. But it seems that the old configuration is still stuck somewhere as
>> > when I try to run:
>> >
>> > #systemctl enable slurmctld
>> > Synchronizing state of slurmctld.service with SysV service script with
>> > /lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install.
>> > Executing: /lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install enable slurmctld
>> > Failed to enable unit: Unit file /etc/systemd/system/slurmctld.service
>> is
>> > masked.
>> > # whereis slurmctld
>> > slurmctld: /usr/local/sbin/slurmctld
>> > # slurmctld
>> > bash: /usr/sbin/slurmctld: No such file or directory
>> >
>> > Any idea what could be going wrong?
>> >
>> > Thank you very much in advance.
>> > Best,
>> > Bruno
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>
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