[slurm-users] Re: Slurm commands fail when run in Singularity container with the error "Invalid user for SlurmUser slurm, SINGULARITYENV_SLURM_CONF

[Robert Kudyba via slurm-users]

In https://support.schedmd.com/show_bug.cgi?id=9282#c6 Tim mentioned this env variable SINGULARITYENV_SLURM_CONF, what is the usage/syntax for it? I can't find any reference to this. I'm running into the same issue mentioned there.

Thanks in advance!

[Benjamin Smith via slurm-users]

On 03/07/2024 16:03, Robert Kudyba via slurm-users wrote:

In https://support.schedmd.com/show_bug.cgi?id=9282#c6 Tim mentioned this env variable SINGULARITYENV_SLURM_CONF, what is the usage/syntax for it? I can't find any reference to this. I'm running into the same issue mentioned there.

That's an Apptainer (formerly singularity) feature. See https://apptainer.org/docs/user/1.3/singularity_compatibility.html#singularity-environment-variable-compatibility . So it should be setting SLURM_CONF inside the container.

Thanks in advance!

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[Robert Kudyba via slurm-users]

Thanks Ben but there's no mention  of SINGULARITYENV_SLURM_CONF in that page. Slurm is not in the container either so we're trying to get mpirun from the host to run inside the container.