[slurm-users] Weird one - deleting a user

[Carlos Fenoy]

Hi,

You can cleanup those jobs with sacctmgr.
https://slurm.schedmd.com/sacctmgr.html

sacctmgr show RunawayJobs

This will list the runaway jobs, and if any will ask if you want to fix
them.

Regards,
Carlos

On Tue, 27 Jul 2021 at 22:49, Bill Wichser <bill at princeton.edu> wrote:

> [root at della5 bill]# sacctmgr -i delete user mable
>   Error with request: Job(s) active, cancel job(s) before remove
>    JobID = 602995     C = tukey      A = politics   U = mable
>
> Yup, when a user has an active job they cannot be deleted from the
> database.  The thing is, this cluster tukey has been offline for maybe 5
> years now. Probably more.
>
> I don't want to lose the old records in the database.  Is there a way to
> say,
>
> Hey, that job you believe is still running on tukey, well it doesn't
> exist anymore so please close this job
>
> ?
>
> I haven't figured out a way to do this outside the database so suspect
> that only DB manipulation is the only answer.
>
> Thanks,
> Bill
>
> --
--
Carles Fenoy
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