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_accountin 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¶
````
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.