Looks like the slurm user does not exist on the system. Did you run the slurmctld and slurmdbd before as root ? If you remove the two lines (User, Group), the services will start. But is is recommended to create a dedicated slurm user for that: https://slurm.schedmd.com/quickstart_admin.html#daemons
On Fri, Jan 19, 2024, 16:02 Miriam Olmi <miriam.o...@lngs.infn.it> wrote: > Hi all, > > I am having some issue with the new version of slurm 23.11.0-1. > > I had already installed and configured slurm 23.02.3-1 on my cluster and > all the services were active and running properly. > > After I install with the same procedure the new version of slurm I have > that > the slurmctld and slurmdbd daemons fail to start all with the same error: > > (code=exited, status=217/USER) > > And investigating the problem with the command journalctl -xe I find: > > slurmctld.service: Failed to determine user credentials: No such process > slurmctld.service: Failed at step USER spawning /usr/sbin/slurmctld: No > such process > > > I had a look at the slurmctld.service file for both the slurm versions and > I found the following differences in the [Service] section. > > From the slurmctld.service file of slurm 23.02.3-1: > > [Service] > Type=simple > EnvironmentFile=-/etc/sysconfig/slurmctld > EnvironmentFile=-/etc/default/slurmctld > ExecStart=/usr/sbin/slurmctld -D -s $SLURMCTLD_OPTIONS > ExecReload=/bin/kill -HUP $MAINPID > LimitNOFILE=65536 > TasksMax=infinity > > > From the slurmctld.service file of slurm 23.11.0-1: > > [Service] > Type=notify > EnvironmentFile=-/etc/sysconfig/slurmctld > EnvironmentFile=-/etc/default/slurmctld > User=slurm > Group=slurm > ExecStart=/usr/sbin/slurmctld --systemd $SLURMCTLD_OPTIONS > ExecReload=/bin/kill -HUP $MAINPID > LimitNOFILE=65536 > TasksMax=infinity > > > I think the presence of the new lines regarding the slurm user might be > the problem > but I am not sure and I have no idea how to solve it. > > Can anyone halp me? > > Thanks in advance, > Miriam > > > > >
