[slurm-users] Issue with AccountingStoreFlags after SLURM 21.08.4 upgrade

[Alan Orth]

Dear list,

Apologies. It seems the nodes I *thought* I had updated to SLURM 21.08 were
not yet updated when I deployed the new configurations. Ouch! Shortly after
the cancelling and rescheduling mishap I updated the nodes properly and now
they recognize the new AccountingStoreFlags=job_comment configuration
option. Sorry for the confusion. A painful lesson to learn!

Regards,

On Sun, Nov 28, 2021 at 2:32 PM Alan Orth <alan.orth at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear list,
>
> I just upgraded my cluster from SLURM 20.11.8 to 21.08.4. Before the
> upgrade I updated my configuration based on this comment from the release
> notes¹:
>
> > -- Removed AccountingStoreJobComment option.  Please update your config
> to use
> >   AccountingStoreFlags=job_comment instead.
>
> After updating the slurmd.conf I upgraded SLURM, but got this error:
>
> > slurmd[21264]: error: _parse_next_key: Parsing error at unrecognized
> key: AccountingStoreFlags
> > slurmd[21264]: error: Parse error in file /etc/slurm/slurm.conf line
> 119: "AccountingStoreFlags=job_comment"
> > slurmd[21264]: fatal: Unable to process configuration file
>
> Then slurmctld drained all my nodes and all my jobs got cancelled. After I
> removed the invalid AccountingStoreFlags option and restarted the SLURM
> daemons on all nodes the jobs got rescheduled, but now all nodes are
> drained due to "Duplicate jobid". *sigh*.
>
> What happened here? Is this a bug? This is the messiest SLURM upgrade I've
> had in years... thank you for any advice,
>
> ¹ https://github.com/SchedMD/slurm/blob/slurm-21.08/RELEASE_NOTES#L135
>
> --
> Alan Orth
> alan.orth at gmail.com
> https://picturingjordan.com
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>


-- 
Alan Orth
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