Carlos,

Yes. The cluster uses LDAP for users.

Brian Andrus
ITACS/Research Computing
Naval Postgraduate School
Monterey, California
voice: 831-656-6238



From: Carlos Fenoy [mailto:mini...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, November 28, 2016 9:58 AM
To: slurm-dev <slurm-dev@schedmd.com>
Subject: [slurm-dev] Re: squeue returns "invalid user" for a user that has jobs 
running

Hi,

Is the user defined in all the compute nodes? Does it has the same UID in all 
the hosts?

Regards,
Carlos

On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 6:54 PM, Andrus, Brian Contractor 
<bdand...@nps.edu<mailto:bdand...@nps.edu>> wrote:
Paddy,
Nope, it is exactly 8 characters: clwalton


Brian Andrus
ITACS/Research Computing
Naval Postgraduate School
Monterey, California
voice: 831-656-6238<tel:831-656-6238>


-----Original Message-----
From: Paddy Doyle [mailto:pa...@tchpc.tcd.ie<mailto:pa...@tchpc.tcd.ie>]
Sent: Monday, November 28, 2016 2:35 AM
To: slurm-dev <slurm-dev@schedmd.com<mailto:slurm-dev@schedmd.com>>
Subject: [slurm-dev] Re: squeue returns "invalid user" for a user that has jobs 
running


Hi Brian,

Is there actual username longer than 8 characters? The default squeue format 
includes "%.8u" for the username.

Paddy

On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 08:26:36PM -0800, Andrus, Brian Contractor wrote:

> All,
>
> Don't quite get this:
>
> # squeue|head
>              JOBID PARTITION     NAME     USER ST       TIME  NODES 
> NODELIST(REASON)
>       751071_17703   primary PARAMEIG clwalton CG 3-00:00:19      1 
> compute-3-87
> 751071_[36752-6220   primary PARAMEIG clwalton PD       0:00      1 
> (Resources)
>             787831   primary runwrfam     hale PD       0:00      1 
> (Reservation)
>       751071_36750   primary PARAMEIG clwalton  R       0:02      1 
> compute-3-33
>       751071_36751   primary PARAMEIG clwalton  R       0:02      1 
> compute-3-37
>       751071_36749   primary PARAMEIG clwalton  R       0:06      1 
> compute-8-17
>             787294   primary wrfrunmp     hale  R    3:34:03      1 
> compute-7-1
> # squeue -u clwalton
> squeue: error: Invalid user: clwalton
>
>              JOBID PARTITION     NAME     USER ST       TIME  NODES 
> NODELIST(REASON)
> # squeue -u hale
>              JOBID PARTITION     NAME     USER ST       TIME  NODES 
> NODELIST(REASON)
>             787831   primary runwrfam     hale PD       0:00      1 
> (Reservation)
>             787294   primary wrfrunmp     hale  R    3:34:03      1 
> compute-7-1
>
>
> Clearly user clwalton is a valid user and has jobs running, but if I try to 
> specify him, squeue isn't happy. It is fine with other users...
> What would cause this?
>
> Brian Andrus
> ITACS/Research Computing
> Naval Postgraduate School
> Monterey, California
> voice: 831-656-6238
>

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Paddy Doyle
Trinity Centre for High Performance Computing, Lloyd Building, Trinity College 
Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland.
Phone: +353-1-896-3725
http://www.tchpc.tcd.ie/



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