I have very similar issue for quite a time and I was unable to find its root cause. Are you using sssd and AD as a data source with only a subtree of entries searched - this is my case.
Did you disable users enumeration? It also what I have. I didn’t find ang evidence that it’s related but... maybe Cheers, Marcin On Thu, 8 Nov 2018 at 19:41, Brian Andrus <toomuc...@gmail.com> wrote: > All, > I am seeing what looks like the same issue as > https://bugs.schedmd.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2119 > > Where, slurmctld is not picking up new accounts unless it is restarted. > > I have 4 clusters (non-federated), all using the same slurmdbd > When I added an association for user name=me cluster=DevOps > account=Project1 and then tried to start a job, I kept getting an error: > *srun: error: Unable to allocate resources: Invalid account or > account/partition combination specified* > > Then I restarted slurmctld on DevOps master and my job ran fine. > > Is there some slurmdbd caching going on by slurmctld? > > This is an issue in a production environment. We don't want to have to > restart all the slurmctld daemons anytime there is a change to any > associations. That could get painful > > Brian Andrus >