What is the working directory for slurmd? I suspect slurmstepd would fork there, perhaps there is some issue with it?
---- Doug Jacobsen, Ph.D. NERSC Computer Systems Engineer National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center <http://www.nersc.gov> dmjacob...@lbl.gov ------------- __o ---------- _ '\<,_ ----------(_)/ (_)__________________________ On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 9:04 AM, Gyro Funch <gyromagne...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thank you for the responses, Doug and Andy. > > There is a /tmp directory on all of the compute nodes and the > permissions seem okay (drwxrwxrwt). > > Running as root, I find: > $ cd /tmp > $ srun -N5 whoami > root > slurmstepd: error: Unable to get current working directory: No such > file or directory > root > slurmstepd: error: Unable to get current working directory: No such > file or directory > root > slurmstepd: error: Unable to get current working directory: No such > file or directory > root > slurmstepd: error: Unable to get current working directory: No such > file or directory > root > > > I also tried > $ cd /home/slurm > $ sudo -u slurm srun -N5 whoami > slurm > slurmstepd: error: Unable to get current working directory: No such > file or directory > slurm > slurmstepd: error: Unable to get current working directory: No such > file or directory > slurm > slurmstepd: error: Unable to get current working directory: No such > file or directory > slurm > slurmstepd: error: Unable to get current working directory: No such > file or directory > slurm > > > Thanks. > > -gyro > > On 9/15/2017 9:19 AM, Andy Riebs wrote: > > Actually, it looks like /tmp is missing on the compute nodes? > > > > On 09/15/2017 11:12 AM, Doug Meyer wrote: > >> Re: [slurm-dev] slurmstepd error > >> Your path is either erroneous in your submission or inaccessible > >> by the client. > >> Welcome to slurm! > >> > >> Doug > >> > >> > >> On Sep 15, 2017 8:10 AM, "Gyro Funch" <gyromagne...@gmail.com > >> <mailto:gyromagne...@gmail.com>> wrote: > >> > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> I am a new user of slurm (17.02.7) and just installed and > >> configured > >> it on a small compute cluster. > >> > >> In testing, I ran into the following situation: > >> > >> ----- > >> > >> $ cd /tmp > >> $ srun -N5 hostname > >> compute-4 > >> slurmstepd: error: Unable to get current working directory: No > >> such > >> file or directory > >> compute-2 > >> slurmstepd: error: Unable to get current working directory: No > >> such > >> file or directory > >> compute-1 > >> slurmstepd: error: Unable to get current working directory: No > >> such > >> file or directory > >> compute-0 > >> slurmstepd: error: Unable to get current working directory: No > >> such > >> file or directory > >> compute-3 > >> > >> ----- > >> > >> Does anyone know why the 'Unable to get current working directory' > >> error arises and how to fix it. > >> > >> Thank you for your help. > >> > >> Kind regards, > >> gyro > >> > >> > > >
