[slurm-dev] sacctmgr: error: Problem talking to the database: Connection refused

[Eva Hocks]

I am new to slurm and have fought my way to get a server and nodes up
and even jobs running. But I do not seem to be able to get any
accounting information due to DB problems.

I am running the slurm rocks roll slurm-6.1.0-1.x86_64 from sourceforge
which is slurm 2.5.0 and the munge daemon is also running.

any sacct command returns:

slurmctld.log:[2013-06-18T14:45:57-07:00] error: Association database
appears down, reading from state file.


Manually I can perfectly connect to the mysql database
+--------------------+
| Database           |
+--------------------+
| information_schema |
| mysql              |
| slurm_acct_db      |
| test               |
+--------------------+
+---------------------------------------+
| Tables_in_slurm_acct_db               |
+---------------------------------------+
| acct_coord_table                      |
| acct_table                            |
| cluster_table                         |
| qos_table                             |
.....

so why is slurmctld returning the fatal error the DB is down????

Anything I can look for in the log files?

Thanks for your help
Eva