[slurm-users] Fwd: useradd: group 'slurm' does not exist

[Nousheen]

Dear Jeffery,

Thank you so much for your prompt response. It has resolved my problem.

Best Regards,
Nousheen Parvaiz


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On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 2:11 AM Jeffrey R. Lang <JRLang at uwyo.edu> wrote:

> Looking at what you provided in your email the groupadd commands are
> failing, due to the requested GID 991 and 992 already being assigned by the
> system your installing on.
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> Check the /etc/group file and find two GID numbers lower than 991 that are
> unused and use those instead.  Keep them in the 900 range and going to low
> can run into system GID assignments.
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> Once you have selected your new GID’s use them in the groupadd commans to
> create the proper groups.  Also use these new GID’s in the useradd commands
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> Hello everyone,
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> I am struggling with the installation of slurm on Centos 7. while
> following this tutorial
> https://www.slothparadise.com/how-to-install-slurm-on-centos-7-cluster/
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> , after the installation of MariaDB, I try to create users for slurm and
> munge but following the same sequence of commands as in the tutorial gives
> me the following error.
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> *Package 1:mariadb-server-5.5.68-1.el7.x86_64 is obsoleted by
> mysql-community-server-5.7.37-1.el7.x86_64 which is already installed
> Package 1:mariadb-devel-5.5.68-1.el7.x86_64 is obsoleted by
> mysql-community-devel-5.7.37-1.el7.x86_64 which is already installed
> Nothing to do [root at exxact slurm]# export MUNGEUSER=991 [root at exxact
> slurm]# groupadd -g $MUNGEUSER munge groupadd: GID '991' already exists
> [root at exxact slurm]# useradd  -m -c "MUNGE Uid 'N' Gid Emporium" -d
> /var/lib/munge -u $MUNGEUSER -g munge  -s /sbin/nologin munge useradd:
> group 'munge' does not exist [root at exxact slurm]# export SLURMUSER=992
> [root at exxact slurm]# groupadd -g $SLURMUSER slurm groupadd: GID '992'
> already exists [root at exxact slurm]# useradd  -m -c "SLURM workload manager"
> -d /var/lib/slurm -u $SLURMUSER -g slurm  -s /bin/bash slurm useradd: group
> 'slurm' does not exist*
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> I am totally new to this. Kindly guide me on how to resolve this.
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> Best Regards,
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> Nousheen Parvaiz
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