Whoops, there was a bug in my posting - I actually was using --pty. The invocation leading to the error message is:
srun --gres=gpu:1 --pty /bin/bash On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 3:23 PM, John Desantis <[email protected]> wrote: > 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]
