[slurm-users] Slurm setup question

[Ole Holm Nielsen]

Hi Matt,

You might want to take a look at my Slurm Wiki, which focuses on 
CentOS/RHEL 7: https://wiki.fysik.dtu.dk/niflheim/SLURM.  Complete 
instructions for Slurm installation, configuration, etc. is in the Wiki.

/Ole

On 04/11/2018 02:26 PM, Matt Hohmeister wrote:
> 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
> 
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> 
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> 
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> 
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