It looks like it could be some kind of network problem but could be DNS. Can you ping and do DNS resolution for the host involved? What does slurmctld.log say? How about slurmd.log on the node in question?
Mike From: slurm-users <slurm-users-boun...@lists.schedmd.com> on behalf of Durai Arasan <arasan.du...@gmail.com> Date: Thursday, January 20, 2022 at 08:08 To: Slurm User Community List <slurm-users@lists.schedmd.com> Subject: [External] Re: [slurm-users] srun : Communication connection failure CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the Colorado School of Mines organization. Do not click on links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Hello slurm users, I forgot to mention that an identical interactive job works successfully on the gpu partitions (in the same cluster). So this is really puzzling. Best, Durai Arasan MPI Tuebingen On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 3:40 PM Durai Arasan <arasan.du...@gmail.com<mailto:arasan.du...@gmail.com>> wrote: Hello Slurm users, We are suddenly encountering strange errors while trying to launch interactive jobs on our cpu partitions. Have you encountered this problem before? Kindly let us know. [darasan84@bg-slurmb-login1 ~]$ srun --job-name "admin_test231" --ntasks=1 --nodes=1 --cpus-per-task=1 --partition=cpu-short --mem=1G --nodelist=slurm-cpu-hm-7 --time 1:00:00 --pty bash srun: error: Task launch for StepId=1137134.0 failed on node slurm-cpu-hm-7: Communication connection failure srun: error: Application launch failed: Communication connection failure srun: Job step aborted: Waiting up to 32 seconds for job step to finish. srun: error: Timed out waiting for job step to complete Best regards, Durai Arasan MPI Tuebingen
