Hi,
We have installed and configured slurm on our cluster, but unable to start the slurmctld daemon. We followed the instructions ( https://slurm.schedmd.com/troubleshoot.html) and tried to stop and restart it multiple times but still not working. Please see the error below. [111] ssirimulla@chanti00 init.d> $ sudo systemctl status slurmctld *●* slurmctld.service - Slurm controller daemon Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/slurmctld.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled) Active: *failed* (Result: exit-code) since Fri 2017-10-06 12:26:18 MDT; 3min 54s ago Process: 21890 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/slurmctld $SLURMCTLD_OPTIONS (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Main PID: 21892 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) Oct 06 12:26:18 chanti00.utep.edu systemd[1]: Starting Slurm controller daemon... Oct 06 12:26:18 chanti00.utep.edu systemd[1]: PID file /var/run/slurmctld.pid not readable (yet?) after start. Oct 06 12:26:18 chanti00.utep.edu systemd[1]: Started Slurm controller daemon. Oct 06 12:26:18 chanti00.utep.edu systemd[1]: *slurmctld.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE* Oct 06 12:26:18 chanti00.utep.edu systemd[1]: *Unit slurmctld.service entered failed state.* Oct 06 12:26:18 chanti00.utep.edu systemd[1]: *slurmctld.service failed*