I just installed Slurm on centos 7 from source. I had todo some setup like creating a Slurm user and a directory here and there. I found it easiest to keep trying to start slurmctld with -D until they were happy. I then used the .service files with success.
Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 13, 2016, at 3:43 AM, Rémi Palancher <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Le 12/03/2016 18:32, Jagga Soorma a écrit : >> Any ideas why the slurm service in the client might be throwing those >> timed out errors? > > `systemctl status` shows you're using SYSV init script for slurm: > > > # systemctl status slurm > > slurm.service - LSB: slurm daemon management > > Loaded: loaded (/etc/rc.d/init.d/slurm) > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > I guess in this case "timeout" means the init script didn't terminate quickly > enough for systemd. Maybe an interactive run of this init script with `set > -x` may help to see what's going on? > > However, I would definitely recommand using native *.service files when using > systemd. Slurm provides those files in etc/ dir: > > https://github.com/SchedMD/slurm/tree/master/etc > > You can install them with the RPMs. This way, systemd will be much more > precise when reporting errors. > > Best, > Rémi
