Slurmdbd does not recognize the parameter SlurmctldPidFile

[Oberfeldwedler]

Hello there,

My Slurmdbd does not recognize the parameter SlurmctldPidFile.
When i comment this out, it works:
# SlurmctldPidFile: "{{ __slurm_run_dir ~ '/slurmdbd.pid' if __slurm_debian else omit }}"

I also could not find the used parameter in https://slurm.schedmd.com/slurmdbd.conf.html#OPT_PidFile.

I could however find the parameter ´PidFile´ but that did throw the same error.

Aug 02 18:37:06 slurmhost slurmdbd[15616]: error: _parse_next_key: Parsing error at unrecognized key: SlurmctldPidFile
Aug 02 18:37:06 slurmhost slurmdbd[15616]: fatal: Could not open/read/parse slurmdbd.conf file /etc/slurm/slurmdbd.conf

I would prefer to set the Location of my slurmdbd.pid file like i do with SlurmctldPidFile and SlurmdPidFile. Can this be accomplished?

I am running slurm-wlm 21.08.5.

/etc/slurm/slurmdbd.conf

  root@slurmhost:/var/log/slurm# cat /etc/slurm/slurmdbd.conf
    ##
    ## This file is maintained by Ansible - ALL MODIFICATIONS WILL BE REVERTED
    ##
    
    ArchiveJobs=yes
    ArchiveSteps=yes
    AuthType=auth/munge
    DbdHost=slurmhost
    DbdPort=6819
    DebugLevel=4
    LogFile=/var/log/slurm/slurmdbd.log
    SlurmUser=slurm
    StorageHost=localhost
    StorageLoc=slurmdb
    StoragePass=CBB...........2B8
    StoragePort=3306
    StorageType=accounting_storage/mysql
    StorageUser=slurm

/etc/slurm/slurm.conf

  root@slurmhost:/var/log/slurm# cat /etc/slurm/slurm.conf
  ##
  ## This file is maintained by Ansible - ALL MODIFICATIONS WILL BE REVERTED
  ##
  
  
  # Configuration options
  AccountingStorageEnforce=limits
  AccountingStorageHost=slurmhost
  AccountingStorageType=accounting_storage/slurmdbd
  AuthType=auth/munge
  ClusterName=ei-hpc-cluster
  CryptoType=crypto/munge
  GresTypes=gpu
  InactiveLimit=0
  JobAcctGatherType=jobacct_gather/linux
  JobCompType=jobcomp/none
  KillWait=30
  MinJobAge=300
  MpiDefault=none
  PriorityDecayHalfLife=7-0
  PriorityType=priority/multifactor
  PriorityWeightAge=1000
  PriorityWeightFairshare=100000
  PriorityWeightPartition=10000
  ProctrackType=proctrack/pgid
  ReturnToService=2
  SchedulerParameters=nohold_on_prolog_fail
  SchedulerType=sched/backfill
  SelectType=select/cons_tres
  SelectTypeParameters=CR_Core
  SlurmctldDebug=5
  SlurmctldHost=slurmhost
  SlurmctldLogFile=/var/log/slurm/slurmctld.log
  SlurmctldPidFile=/run/slurm/slurmctld.pid
  SlurmctldPort=6817
  SlurmctldTimeout=300
  SlurmdDebug=3
  SlurmdLogFile=/var/log/slurm/slurmd.log
  SlurmdPidFile=/run/slurm/slurmd.pid
  SlurmdPort=6818
  SlurmdSpoolDir=/var/spool/slurm/d
  SlurmdTimeout=300
  SlurmUser=slurm
  StateSaveLocation=/var/spool/slurm/ctld
  SwitchType=switch/none
  Waittime=0
  
  # Nodes
  NodeName=ei-srv-018 Boards=1 CoresPerSocket=16 CPUs=32 RealMemory=240000 SocketsPerBoard=2 State=UNKNOWN ThreadsPerCore=2
  
  # Partitions
  PartitionName=normal Default=YES MaxTime=60 Nodes=ALL PriorityJobFactor=10000 State=UP
  PartitionName=day AllowAccounts=professor,mitarbeiter,student MaxTime=1440 Nodes=ALL PriorityJobFactor=6000 State=UP
  PartitionName=long AllowAccounts=professor,mitarbeiter,student MaxTime=10080 Nodes=ALL PriorityJobFactor=1000 State=UP
  PartitionName=priority AllowAccounts=admin MaxTime=UNLIMITED Nodes=ALL PriorityJobFactor=5000 State=UP

[cat-bro]

We have the same issue. As a workaround we are overriding __slurmdbd_config_default for the time being https://github.com/usegalaxy-au/infrastructure/blob/master/group_vars/all.yml#L267-L272