[slurm-users] Slurm setup question

[Douglas Jacobsen]

It looks like your slurm.conf is specifying /var/spool as your Save state
directory, and `fatal: Incorrect permissions on state save loc: /var/spool`
indicates that SlurmUser (another configuration in slurm.conf) does not
have access to write to it.  It might be a good to make a directory
dedicated for this purpose, e.g. /var/spool/slurm/<clustername>_state, and
then make sure that the SlurmUser (usually either "slurm" or root,
depending on your needs), can access that directory.

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Doug Jacobsen, Ph.D.
NERSC Computer Systems Engineer
National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center <http://www.nersc.gov>
dmjacobsen at lbl.gov

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On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 5:44 AM, Ole Holm Nielsen <
Ole.H.Nielsen at fysik.dtu.dk> wrote:

> 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
>>
>> Systems and Network Administrator
>>
>> Department of Psychology
>>
>> Florida State University
>>
>> PO Box 3064301
>>
>> Tallahassee, FL 32306-4301
>>
>> Phone: +1 850 645 1902
>>
>> Fax: +1 850 644 7739
>>
>
>
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