[slurm-users] SLURMDBD fails trying to talk to MariaDB - Help debugging configuration

[Aravindh Sampathkumar]

@Chris and @Lachlan,
Thanks for your responses. 

I resolved the issue based on hint from Jeffrey in earlier email. I tweaked the location of PID files in slurm config files, but missed to change them in the systemd service definition files. 
Making them watch the same PID files did the trick. 

@Lachlan,
I understand the frustration with the HTML email. I'll use plaintext from now on whenever console content is involved.

Thanks! 

-- 
  Aravindh Sampathkumar
  aravindh at fastmail.com

On Fri, Oct 12, 2018, at 12:59 AM, Chris Samuel wrote:
> On 12/10/18 07:58, Aravindh Sampathkumar wrote:
> 
> > I'm trying to setup a SLURM cluster in a virtual environment before 
> > actually deploying it for serious work. I hit a snag where Slurmdbd 
> > fails soon after starting because of trouble connecting to MariaDB.
> 
> I don't see any errors there, just that systemd is killing slurmdbd for 
> some reason.
> 
> What happens if you run slurmdbd by hand as root? Like this:
> 
> slurmdbd -D -vvvv
> 
> That should run it in the foreground and output debug info to the screen.
> 
> -- 
>   Chris Samuel  :  http://www.csamuel.org/  :  Melbourne, VIC
>