Chris, Try using "--pty /bin/bash" to get a shell, and see if that helps.
John DeSantis On Jan 21, 2016 5:47 PM, "Chris Paciorek" <[email protected]> wrote: > > We've been trying out the use of gres to control access to our GPU. It > works fine for a batch submission but when submitting via srun to get > an interactive session we get the following error: > > paciorek@machine:~/> srun --gres=gpu:1 /bin/bash > srun: error: gres_plugin_job_state_unpack: no plugin configured to > unpack data type 7696487 from job 10884 > srun: gres_plugin_step_state_unpack: no plugin configured to unpack > data type 7696487 from step 10884.0 > srun: error: Task launch for 10884.0 failed on node scf-sm20: Invalid > job credential > srun: error: Application launch failed: Invalid job credential > srun: Job step aborted: Waiting up to 2 seconds for job step to finish. > srun: error: Timed out waiting for job step to complete > > We're running on set of Ubuntu 14.04 machines, with SLURM v. 2.6.5 > (i.e., the slurm-llnl 2.6.5-1 Ubuntu package that is the latest for > 14.04). > > We set up gconf in the way suggested in the SLURM documentation (here > are the relevant lines from slurm.conf): > GresTypes=gpu > NodeName=our_gpu_nodename CPUs=24 SocketsPerBoard=2 CoresPerSocket=6 > ThreadsPerCore=2 RealMemory=128908 TmpDisk=469325 Gres=gpu:1 > > Any ideas? > > Thanks, > Chris > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Chris Paciorek > > Statistical Computing Consultant > Statistical Computing Facility, Econometrics Laboratory, Berkeley > Research Computing > > Office: 495 Evans Hall Email: > [email protected] > Mailing Address: Voice: 510-842-6670 > Department of Statistics Fax: 510-642-7892 > 367 Evans Hall Skype: cjpaciorek > University of California, Berkeley WWW: > www.stat.berkeley.edu/~paciorek > Berkeley, CA 94720 USA Permanent forward: > [email protected] >
