Indeed, surmdbd and slurmctl are running as user slurm on the slurm server; slurmd is running as root on the compute nodes.
Thanks! On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 3:35 PM, Douglas Jacobsen <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm betting that slurmctld is running as a different uid than slurmdbd. > Once both are running as the same uid, slurmctld will start taking updates > from slurmdbd (via sacctmgr). > > -Doug > > > On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 2:51 PM, Terri Knight <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Since upgrading to slurm 15.08.1 on Ubuntu 14.04.3 it is required to >> restart mysql, slurmdbd, and slurmctl daemons before a new user receives >> access to submit a job (accounting enabled). >> >> $ sacctmgr add user ptrimmer defaultaccount=adamgrp partition=serial >> cluster=farm >> >> $ sacctmgr dump farm >> ... >> User - 'ptrimmer':Partition='serial':DefaultAccount='adamgrp':Fairshare=1 >> ... >> >> As user ptrimmer: >> $ srun -p serial date >> srun: error: Unable to allocate resources: Invalid account or >> account/partition combination specified >> >> On the slurm server as root: >> # service mysql stop >> mysql stop/waiting >> #service slurm-llnl-slurmdbd stop >> * Stopping slurm-llnl database server interface >> [ OK ] >> # service slurm-llnl stop >> * Stopping slurm central management daemon slurmctld >> [ OK ] >> slurmctld is stopped >> # service mysql start >> mysql start/running, process 6270 >> # service slurm-llnl-slurmdbd start >> * Starting slurm-llnl database server interface >> [ OK ] >> # service slurm-llnl start >> * Starting slurm central management daemon slurmctld >> >> Back to user ptrimmer: >> ptrimmer@farm:~$ srun -p serial date >> srun: job 5898165 queued and waiting for resources >> srun: job 5898165 has been allocated resources >> Mon Dec 28 12:57:20 PST 2015 >> >> I also tried running >> $ scontrol reconfig >> on the slurm server before restarting the slurm daemons but that did not >> help. >> >> Is this proper? In slurm 2.6 I did not have to do this. >> >> thanks, >> Terri Knight >> > >
