James,

Would be great to know OS and SLURM version.

For instance, on Centos 7/Debian 8/Ubuntu 16.04, you might be using

systemctl status/start/restart slurmctld (head node)
systemctl status/start/restart slurmd   (worker nodes)

instead?

Cheers
L.

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On 30 August 2016 at 16:47, James Andrew Venning <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi all,
> I'm trying to set up a slurm system. I've been through the installation
> instructions, but I'm getting stuck on launching the daemon. If I run, from
> the slurm controller,
>
> scontrol ping
>
> it informs me:
>
> Slurmctld(primary/backup) at 130.56.254.79/(NULL) are DOWN/DOWN
>
> If I run it as sudo I get:
>
> Slurmctld(primary/backup) at 130.56.254.79/(NULL) are DOWN/DOWN
> *****************************************
> ** RESTORE SLURMCTLD DAEMON TO SERVICE **
> *****************************************
>
> I've tried:
>
> sudo /etc/init.d/slurm-llnl stop
> sudo /etc/init.d/slurm-llnl startclean
>
> Which doesn't return an error, but when I run ps -el | grep slurm, it
> returns nothing.
>
> I turned on logging by changing these lines in slurm.conf:
> SlurmctldDebug=3
> SlurmctldLogFile=/home/ubuntu/slurmlog
>
> But the log file is never generated.
>
> Are you able to point me in the right direction? I've attached my
> slurm.conf file if that's important.
>
> Thanks!
> James
>
> #slurm.conf file generated by configurator easy.html.
> # Put this file on all nodes of your cluster.
> # See the slurm.conf man page for more information.
> #
> ControlMachine=130.56.254.79
> #ControlAddr=
> #
> #MailProg=/bin/mail
> MpiDefault=none
> #MpiParams=ports=#-#
> ProctrackType=proctrack/pgid
> ReturnToService=1
> SlurmctldPidFile=/var/run/slurmctld.pid
> #SlurmctldPort=6817
> SlurmdPidFile=/var/run/slurmd.pid
> #SlurmdPort=6818
> SlurmdSpoolDir=/var/spool/slurmd
> SlurmUser=slurm
> #SlurmdUser=root
> StateSaveLocation=/var/spool/slurm
> SwitchType=switch/none
> TaskPlugin=task/none
> #
> #
> # TIMERS
> #KillWait=30
> #MinJobAge=300
> #SlurmctldTimeout=120
> #SlurmdTimeout=300
> #
> #
> # SCHEDULING
> FastSchedule=1
> SchedulerType=sched/backfill
> #SchedulerPort=7321
> SelectType=select/linear
> #
> #
> # LOGGING AND ACCOUNTING
> AccountingStorageType=accounting_storage/none
> ClusterName=cluster
> #JobAcctGatherFrequency=30
> JobAcctGatherType=jobacct_gather/none
> SlurmctldDebug=3
> SlurmctldLogFile=/home/ubuntu/slurmlog
> #SlurmdDebug=3
> #SlurmdLogFile=
> #
> #
> # COMPUTE NODES
> NodeName=node[0-2] CPUs=16 State=UNKNOWN
> PartitionName=standard Nodes=node[0-2] Default=YES MaxTime=INFINITE
> State=UP
>

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