Slurm troubleshooting

When using Slurm, unexpected things may happen. This page describes Slurm errors.

1. Invalid account or account/partition combination specified

1.1. Full error message

sbatch: error: Batch job submission failed: Invalid account or account/partition combination specified

1.2. To reproduce

touch do_something.sh
echo '#!/bin/bash' >> do_something.sh 
sbatch -A some_invalid_account do_something.sh 

1.3. Problem

As stated by the error message: you've used either:

• an invalid account (for example, some_invalid_account in the example above)
• an invalid combination of account and partition, for example using a Rackham account for a Snowy partition

Or, in less formal terms, you are using a NAISS project that is not an active UPPMAX project for that UPPMAX cluster.

1.4. Solution

• View your NAISS projects and see if the project you used is indeed an active UPPMAX project that can be used on the cluster you expect
• Use these in your scripts

2. Invalid project

2.1. Full error message

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sbatch: error: Errors in job submission:
sbatch: error: ERROR 1: Invalid project.
sbatch: error: Use the flag -A to specify an active project with allocation on this cluster.
sbatch: error: Batch job submission failed: Unspecified error```

### 2.2. To reproduce

```bash
sbatch my_script.sh -A my_project

2.3. Problem

The order of the arguments is incorrect. The script to be submitted must be the last argument.

2.4. Solution

sbatch -A my_project my_script.sh