Hi Andre,The slurm{d,ctld} service files expect the PID files to be located in /var/run/slurm-llnl subdir. It must be configured this way in your slurm.conf file (SlurmctldPidFile and SlurmdPidFile parameters) to make systemd service files work properly.
If the slurm daemons create the PID files in another location, systemd will timeout after waiting a few seconds for these files to be created in expected location.
Can you check the values of these parameters in your slurm.conf file? Best, Rémi
