[slurm-users] Slurm setup question

[Matt Hohmeister]

I'm brand-new to Slurm, and setting it up on a single RHEL 7.4 VM as a proof of concept before I deploy it. After following the instructions on https://www.slothparadise.com/how-to-install-slurm-on-centos-7-cluster/ (sorry, site not working now), I can get slurmd to start perfectly, but slurmctld fails to start with the following journalctl -xe; I was wondering if anyone has run into this or could shed some light on this...thanks in advance!

Apr 11 08:18:30 psy-slurm polkitd[680]: Registered Authentication Agent for unix-process:1779:31362 (system bus name :1.26 [/usr/bin/pkttyagent --notify-fd 5 --fallbac
Apr 11 08:18:30 psy-slurm systemd[1]: Starting Slurm controller daemon...
-- Subject: Unit slurmctld.service has begun start-up
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
--
-- Unit slurmctld.service has begun starting up.
Apr 11 08:18:30 psy-slurm systemd[1]: PID file /var/run/slurmctld.pid not readable (yet?) after start.
Apr 11 08:18:30 psy-slurm systemd[1]: Started Slurm controller daemon.
-- Subject: Unit slurmctld.service has finished start-up
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
--
-- Unit slurmctld.service has finished starting up.
--
-- The start-up result is done.
Apr 11 08:18:30 psy-slurm polkitd[680]: Unregistered Authentication Agent for unix-process:1779:31362 (system bus name :1.26, object path /org/freedesktop/PolicyKit1/A
Apr 11 08:18:30 psy-slurm slurmctld[1787]: fatal: Incorrect permissions on state save loc: /var/spool
Apr 11 08:18:30 psy-slurm systemd[1]: slurmctld.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Apr 11 08:18:30 psy-slurm systemd[1]: Unit slurmctld.service entered failed state.
Apr 11 08:18:30 psy-slurm systemd[1]: slurmctld.service failed.

Matt Hohmeister
Systems and Network Administrator
Department of Psychology
Florida State University
PO Box 3064301
Tallahassee, FL 32306-4301
Phone: +1 850 645 1902
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