Invalid account or account/partition

[Michael Colonno]

Hi SLURMers ~



Hopefully a basic question: I set up a new one-node test cluster to run a few things on. I have one local user account and master = node. When trying to run anything through that user account, I’m getting:



srun: error: Unable to allocate resources: Invalid account or account/partition combination specified



From the master log:



[2014-09-03T21:00:24.277] _job_create: invalid account or partition for user 500, account 'mcolonno', and partition 'all'

[2014-09-03T21:00:24.277] _slurm_rpc_allocate_resources: Invalid account or account/partition combination specified



Having set up several larger SLURM clusters I’ve never seen this behavior before. I’m hoping there is some setting I missed to recognize or associate local users(?) I checked between my older (working) clusters and this new one: neither have an account management database running.



Thanks,

~Mike C.

[Trey Dockendorf]

What's the value of AccountingStorageEnforce in slurm.conf?

If it contains limits, qos, wckeys, safe, or associations, then that user account must have an association in the accounting database.

Sounds like your slurm.conf expects an association to exist for a user to submit a job. The fact your logs have an "account" value looks like you have an accounting database running.

For example:

slurm.conf:

AccountingStorageEnforce=limits,qos
AccountingStorageType=accounting_storage/slurmdbd

$ sacctmgr show user slurm
User Def Acct Admin
---------- ---------- ---------

(Then become a user not in the database):

$ whoami
slurm
$ srun -n1 hostname
srun: error: Unable to allocate resources: Invalid account or account/partition combination specified

- Trey

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Texas A&M University
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Sent: Wednesday, September 3, 2014 4:27:32 PM
Subject: [slurm-dev] Invalid account or account/partition
Hi SLURMers ~
Hopefully a basic question: I set up a new one-node test cluster to
run a few things on. I have one local user account and master =
node. When trying to run anything through that user account, I’m
srun: error: Unable to allocate resources: Invalid account or
account/partition combination specified
[2014-09-03T21:00:24.277] _job_create: invalid account or partition
for user 500, account 'mcolonno', and partition 'all'
[2014-09-03T21:00:24.277] _slurm_rpc_allocate_resources: Invalid
account or account/partition combination specified
Having set up several larger SLURM clusters I’ve never seen this
behavior before. I’m hoping there is some setting I missed to
recognize or associate local users(?) I checked between my older
(working) clusters and this new one: neither have an account
management database running.
Thanks ,
~Mike C.