[slurm-users] salloc not working in configless setup on login machine

[nanava@luis.uni-hannover.de]

Hi,

if I execute salloc on a login machine and then run any user command,  I get the following error:

[testuser at login03] $ salloc -p gpu  --ntasks=8 --mem=7000mb

[testuser at login03] $ sinfo                            
sinfo: error: Parse error in file /proc/4050/fd/5 line 1: "" 
sinfo: error: Parse error in file /proc/4050/fd/5 line 4: "" 
sinfo: error: Parse error in file /proc/4050/fd/5 line 6: ""
sinfo: error: Parse error in file /proc/4050/fd/5 line 7: "|"
sinfo: error: Parse error in file /proc/4050/fd/5 line 8: "|"
sinfo: error: Parse error in file /proc/4050/fd/5 line 9: "!"
.....
...............
sinfo: error: ClusterName needs to be specified
sinfo: fatal: Unable to process configuration file

The slurm packages installed on the login node:

[testuser at login03] $ rpm -qa slurm*
slurm-20.02.0-1.el7.x86_64
slurm-perlapi-20.02.0-1.el7.x86_64

The slurmctl is identified through dns srv record. If I run sinfo without prior execution of salloc, then it works. 

Do cluster login nodes still require slurm.conf file?

Thank you.

Best  regards
Gizo

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