[slurm-users] what is the possible reason for secondary slurmctld node not allocate job after takeover?

[taleintervenor at sjtu.edu.cn]

Hi, all:

 

Our cluster set up 2 slurm control node and scontrol show config as below:

> scontrol show config

.

SlurmctldHost[0]        = slurm1

SlurmctldHost[1]        = slurm2

StateSaveLocation       = /etc/slurm/state

.

Of course we have make sure both node has the some slurm conf and mount the
same nfs on StateSaveLocation and can read/write it. (but there system is
different, slurm1 is centos7 and slurm2 is centos8)

When slurm1 control the cluster and slurm2 work in standby mode, the cluster
has no problem.

But when we use "scontrol takeover" on slurm2 to switch the primary role, we
find new-submit jobs all stuck in PD state.

No job will be allocated resource by slurm2, no matter how long we wait.
Meanwhile old running jobs can complete without problem, and query command
like "sinfo", "sacct" all work well.

The pending reason is firstly shown as "priority" in squeue, but after we
manually update the priority, it become "none" reason and still stuck in PD
state.

During slurm2 primary period, there is no significant error in
slurmctld.log. Only after we restart the slurm1 service to let slurm2 return
to standby role, it report lots of error as:

error: Invalid RPC received MESSAGE_NODE_REGISTRATION_STATUS while in
standby mode

error: Invalid RPC received REQUEST_COMPLETE_PROLOG while in standby mode

error: Invalid RPC received REQUEST_COMPLETE_JOB_ALLOCATION while in standby
mode

 

So is there any suggestion to find the reason why slurm2 work abnormally as
primary controller?

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