[slurm-users] Unable to delete account

[Simon Gao]

Hi,

We are experiencing an issue with deleting any Slurm account.

When running a command like: sacctmgr delete account <account_name>,
following errors are returned and the command failed.


# sacctmgr delete account <account_name>
Database is busy or waiting for lock from other user.
sacctmgr: error: Getting response to message type: DBD_REMOVE_ACCOUNTS
sacctmgr: error: DBD_REMOVE_ACCTS failure: No error
Error with request: No error


Any help in debugging this issue is appreciated.

Simon

[Kilian Cavalotti]

Hi Simon,

On Mon, Mar 6, 2023 at 1:34 PM Simon Gao <simo...@schrodinger.com> wrote:
> We are experiencing an issue with deleting any Slurm account.
>
> When running a command like: sacctmgr delete account <account_name>,
> following errors are returned and the command failed.
>
> # sacctmgr delete account <account_name>
> Database is busy or waiting for lock from other user.
> sacctmgr: error: Getting response to message type: DBD_REMOVE_ACCOUNTS
> sacctmgr: error: DBD_REMOVE_ACCTS failure: No error
> Error with request: No error

You haven't specified the version you're using, but that looks like
https://bugs.schedmd.com/show_bug.cgi?id=11742, fixed in version
21.08.

Cheers,
--
Kilian

[Simon Gao]

Thank you Kilian.

We are running Slurm 20.11.8. Looks like this is exactly what's going on.

Simon