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. 

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> 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

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