Hi, You can cleanup those jobs with sacctmgr. https://slurm.schedmd.com/sacctmgr.html
sacctmgr show RunawayJobs This will list the runaway jobs, and if any will ask if you want to fix them. Regards, Carlos On Tue, 27 Jul 2021 at 22:49, Bill Wichser <b...@princeton.edu> wrote: > [root@della5 bill]# sacctmgr -i delete user mable > Error with request: Job(s) active, cancel job(s) before remove > JobID = 602995 C = tukey A = politics U = mable > > Yup, when a user has an active job they cannot be deleted from the > database. The thing is, this cluster tukey has been offline for maybe 5 > years now. Probably more. > > I don't want to lose the old records in the database. Is there a way to > say, > > Hey, that job you believe is still running on tukey, well it doesn't > exist anymore so please close this job > > ? > > I haven't figured out a way to do this outside the database so suspect > that only DB manipulation is the only answer. > > Thanks, > Bill > > -- -- Carles Fenoy
