[slurm-users] Problem with permisions. CentOS 7.8

Ole Holm Nielsen Ole.H.Nielsen at fysik.dtu.dk
Tue Jun 2 10:03:27 UTC 2020


Hi Ferran,

Please install Slurm software in the standard way, see
https://wiki.fysik.dtu.dk/niflheim/Slurm_installation

It seems that you have some unusual way to manage your Linux systems.  In 
Stockholm and Sweden there are many Slurm experts at the HPC centers which 
might be able to help you more directly.

Best regards,
Ole

On 6/2/20 11:58 AM, Ferran Planas Padros wrote:
> I did a fresh installation with the EPEL repo, and installing munge from 
> it and it worked. To have the slurm user for munge was definitely a 
> problem, but that is the set up we have on the CentOS 6. Now I've learnt 
> my lesson for future installations, thanks to everyone!
> 
> 
> Now, I have a follow up question, if you don't mind. I am now trying to 
> run slurm, and it crashes:
> 
> 
> [root at roos21 ~]# systemctl status slurm.service
> 
> *●*slurm.service - LSB: slurm daemon management
> 
> Loaded: loaded (/etc/rc.d/init.d/slurm; bad; vendor preset: disabled)
> 
> Active: *failed*(Result: protocol) since Tue 2020-06-02 11:45:33 CEST; 
> 3min 33s ago
> 
> Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
> 
> 
> Jun 02 11:45:33 roos21.organ.su.se systemd[1]: Starting LSB: slurm daemon 
> management...
> 
> Jun 02 11:45:33 roos21.organ.su.se slurm[18223]: starting slurmd: [OK]
> 
> Jun 02 11:45:33 roos21.organ.su.se systemd[1]: Can't open PID file 
> /var/run/slurmctld.pid (yet?) after start: No such file or directory
> 
> Jun 02 11:45:33 roos21.organ.su.se systemd[1]: *Failed to start LSB: slurm 
> daemon management.*
> 
> Jun 02 11:45:33 roos21.organ.su.se systemd[1]: *Unit slurm.service entered 
> failed state.*
> 
> Jun 02 11:45:33 roos21.organ.su.se systemd[1]: *slurm.service failed.*
> 
> 
> 
> The thing is that this is a computing node, not the master node, so 
> slurmctld is not installed. Why do I get this error?
> 
> 
> Many thanks, and my apologies for this rather simple questions. I am a 
> newbie on this.
> 
> 
> Best,
> 
> Ferran
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* slurm-users <slurm-users-bounces at lists.schedmd.com> on behalf of 
> Renata Maria Dart <renata at slac.stanford.edu>
> *Sent:* Friday, May 29, 2020 6:33:58 PM
> *To:* Ole.H.Nielsen at fysik.dtu.dk; Slurm User Community List
> *Subject:* Re: [slurm-users] Problem with permisions. CentOS 7.8
> Hi, don't know if this might be your problem but I ran into an issue
> on centos 7.8 where /var/run/munge was not being created at boottime
> because I didn't have the munge user in the local password file.  I
> have the munge user in AD and once the system is up I can start munge
> successfully, but AD wasn't available early enough during boot for the
> munge startup to see it.  I added these lines to the munge systemctl
> file:
> 
> PermissionsStartOnly=true
> ExecStartPre=-/usr/bin/mkdir -m 0755 -p /var/run/munge
> ExecStartPre=-/usr/bin/chown -R munge:munge /var/run/munge
> 
> and my system now starts munge up fine during a reboot.
> 
> Renata
> 
> On Fri, 29 May 2020, Ole Holm Nielsen wrote:
> 
>> Hi Ferran,
>>
>> When you have a CentOS 7 system with the EPEL repo enabled, and you have
>> installed the munge RPM from EPEL, then things should be working correctly.
>>
>> Since systemctl tells you that Munge service didn't start correctly, then it
>> seems to me that you have a problem in the general configuration of your CentOS
>> 7 system.  You should check /var/log/messages and "journalctl -xe" for munge
>> errors.  It is really hard for other people to guess what may be wrong in your
>> system.
>>
>> My 2 cents worth: Maybe you could make a fresh CentOS 7.8 installation on a
>> test system and install the Munge service (and nothing else) according to
>> instructions in https://wiki.fysik.dtu.dk/niflheim/Slurm_installation.  This
>> *really* has got to work!
>>
>> /Ole
>>
>>
>> On 29-05-2020 10:23, Ferran Planas Padros wrote:
>>> Hello everyone,
>>>
>>>
>>> Here it comes everything I've done.
>>>
>>>
>>> - About Ole's answer:
>>>
>>> Yes, we have slurm as the user to control munge. Following your comment, I
>>> have changed the ownership of the munge files and tried to start munge as
>>> munge user. However, it also failed.
>>>
>>> Also, I first installed munge from a repository. I've seen your suggestion of
>>> installing from EPEL. So I uninstalled and installed again. Same result
>>>
>>> - About SELinux: It is disables
>>>
>>> - The output of ps -ef | grep munge is:
>>>
>>>
>>> root534051530 10:18 pts/000:00:00 grep --color=auto *munge*
>>>
>>>
>>> - The outputs of munge -n is:
>>>
>>>
>>> Failed to access "/var/run/munge/munge.socket.2": No such file or directory
>>>
>>>
>>> - Same for unmunge
>>>
>>>
>>> - Output for sudo systemctl status --full munge
>>>
>>>
>>> *?*munge.service - MUNGE authentication service
>>>
>>> Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/munge.service; enabled; vendor preset:
>>> disabled)
>>>
>>> Active: *failed*(Result: exit-code) since Fri 2020-05-29 10:15:52 CEST; 4min
>>> 18s ago
>>>
>>> Docs: man:munged(8)
>>>
>>> Process: 5333 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/munged *(code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)*
>>>
>>>
>>> May 29 10:15:52 roos21.organ.su.se systemd[1]: Starting MUNGE authentication
>>> service...
>>>
>>> May 29 10:15:52 roos21.organ.su.se systemd[1]: *munge.service: control process
>>> exited, code=exited status=1*
>>>
>>> May 29 10:15:52 roos21.organ.su.se systemd[1]: *Failed to start MUNGE
>>> authentication service.*
>>>
>>> May 29 10:15:52 roos21.organ.su.se systemd[1]: *Unit munge.service entered
>>> failed state.*
>>>
>>> May 29 10:15:52 roos21.organ.su.se systemd[1]: *munge.service failed.*
>>>
>>>
>>> - Regarding NTP, I get this message:
>>>
>>>
>>> Unable to talk to NTP daemon. Is it running?
>>>
>>>
>>> It is the same message I get in the nodes that DO work. All nodes are sync in
>>> time and date with the central node
>>>
>>>
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> *From:* slurm-users <slurm-users-bounces at lists.schedmd.com> on behalf of Ole
>>> Holm Nielsen <Ole.H.Nielsen at fysik.dtu.dk>
>>> *Sent:* Friday, May 29, 2020 9:56:10 AM
>>> *To:* slurm-users at lists.schedmd.com
>>> *Subject:* Re: [slurm-users] Problem with permisions. CentOS 7.8
>>> On 29-05-2020 08:46, Sudeep Narayan Banerjee wrote:
>>>> also check:
>>>> a) whether NTP has been setup and communicating with master node
>>>> b) iptables may be flushed (iptables -L)
>>>> c) SeLinux to disabled, to check :
>>>> getenforce
>>>> vim /etc/sysconfig/selinux
>>>> (change SELINUX=enforcing to SELINUX=disabled and save the file and reboot)
>>>
>>> There is no reason to disable SELinux for running the Munge service.
>>> It's a pretty bad idea to lower the security just for the sake of
>>> convenience!
>>>
>>> /Ole
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 12:08 PM Sudeep Narayan Banerjee
>>>> <snbanerjee at iitgn.ac.in <mailto:snbanerjee at iitgn.ac.in>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>      I have not checked on the CentOS7.8
>>>>      a) if /var/run/munge folder does not exist then please double check
>>>>      whether munge has been installed or not
>>>>      b) user root or sudo user to do
>>>>      ps -ef | grep munge
>>>>      kill -9 <PID> //where PID is the Process ID for munge (if the
>>>>      process is running at all); else
>>>>
>>>>      which munged
>>>>      /etc/init.d/munge start
>>>>
>>>>      please let me know the the output of:
>>>>
>>>>      |$ munge -n|
>>>>
>>>>      |$ munge -n | unmunge|
>>>>
>>>>      |$ sudo systemctl status --full munge
>>>>
>>>>      |
>>>>
>>>>      Thanks & Regards,
>>>>      Sudeep Narayan Banerjee
>>>>      System Analyst | Scientist B
>>>>      Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar
>>>>      Gujarat, INDIA
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>      On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 11:55 AM Bjørn-Helge Mevik
>>>>      <b.h.mevik at usit.uio.no <mailto:b.h.mevik at usit.uio.no>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>          Ferran Planas Padros <ferran.padros at su.se
>>>>          <mailto:ferran.padros at su.se>> writes:
>>>>
>>>>           > I run the command as slurm user, and the /var/log/munge
>>>>          folder does belong to slurm.
>>>>
>>>>          For security reasons, I strongly advise that you run munged as a
>>>>          separate user, which is unprivileged and not used for anything else.
>>>>
>>>>          --          Regards,
>>>>          Bjørn-Helge Mevik, dr. scient,
>>>>          Department for Research Computing, University of Oslo



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