[slurm-users] Weird one - deleting a user

[Bill Wichser]

The cluster doesn't exist though.  This was what I tried first.

[root at della5 bill]# sacctmgr show RunawayJobs cluster=tukey
sacctmgr: error: Slurmctld running on cluster tukey is not up, can't 
check running jobs

Bill

On 7/27/21 4:59 PM, Carlos Fenoy wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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