Dear Jeffery, Thank you so much for your prompt response. It has resolved my problem.
Best Regards, Nousheen Parvaiz ᐧ On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 2:11 AM Jeffrey R. Lang <jrl...@uwyo.edu> wrote: > Looking at what you provided in your email the groupadd commands are > failing, due to the requested GID 991 and 992 already being assigned by the > system your installing on. > > > > Check the /etc/group file and find two GID numbers lower than 991 that are > unused and use those instead. Keep them in the 900 range and going to low > can run into system GID assignments. > > > > Once you have selected your new GID’s use them in the groupadd commans to > create the proper groups. Also use these new GID’s in the useradd commands > as appropriate. > > > > > > > > *From:* slurm-users <slurm-users-boun...@lists.schedmd.com> *On Behalf Of > *Nousheen > *Sent:* Tuesday, January 25, 2022 2:39 PM > *To:* slurm-users@lists.schedmd.com > *Subject:* [slurm-users] Fwd: useradd: group 'slurm' does not exist > > > > ◆ This message was sent from a non-UWYO address. Please exercise caution > when clicking links or opening attachments from external sources. > > > > > > Hello everyone, > > > > I am struggling with the installation of slurm on Centos 7. while > following this tutorial > https://www.slothparadise.com/how-to-install-slurm-on-centos-7-cluster/ > > , after the installation of MariaDB, I try to create users for slurm and > munge but following the same sequence of commands as in the tutorial gives > me the following error. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > *Package 1:mariadb-server-5.5.68-1.el7.x86_64 is obsoleted by > mysql-community-server-5.7.37-1.el7.x86_64 which is already installed > Package 1:mariadb-devel-5.5.68-1.el7.x86_64 is obsoleted by > mysql-community-devel-5.7.37-1.el7.x86_64 which is already installed > Nothing to do [root@exxact slurm]# export MUNGEUSER=991 [root@exxact > slurm]# groupadd -g $MUNGEUSER munge groupadd: GID '991' already exists > [root@exxact slurm]# useradd -m -c "MUNGE Uid 'N' Gid Emporium" -d > /var/lib/munge -u $MUNGEUSER -g munge -s /sbin/nologin munge useradd: > group 'munge' does not exist [root@exxact slurm]# export SLURMUSER=992 > [root@exxact slurm]# groupadd -g $SLURMUSER slurm groupadd: GID '992' > already exists [root@exxact slurm]# useradd -m -c "SLURM workload manager" > -d /var/lib/slurm -u $SLURMUSER -g slurm -s /bin/bash slurm useradd: group > 'slurm' does not exist* > > > > I am totally new to this. Kindly guide me on how to resolve this. > > > Best Regards, > > Nousheen Parvaiz > > ᐧ > > ᐧ >
