This thread on the forums may help: https://groups.google.com/g/slurm-users/c/YB55Ru9rvD4
It looks like you have something on your network with an older version of slurm installed. I'd check the Slurm version installed on your compute nodes and controllers. The recommended approach to upgrading is to upgrade the SlurmDB first, then the controllers, then the compute nodes. More info here: https://slurm.schedmd.com/quickstart_admin.html#upgrade Regards -- Mick Timony Senior DevOps Engineer Harvard Medical School -- ________________________________ From: slurm-users <slurm-users-boun...@lists.schedmd.com> on behalf of Wadud Miah <w.m...@soton.ac.uk> Sent: Thursday, September 8, 2022 10:47 AM To: slurm-users@lists.schedmd.com <slurm-users@lists.schedmd.com> Subject: [slurm-users] Upgrading SLURM from 18 to 20.11.9 Hi, I am attempting to upgrade from SLURM 18 to 20.11.9 and when I attempt to start slurmdbd (version 20.11.9), I get the following error messages in /var/log/slurm/slurmdbd.log: [2022-09-08T15:45:11.115] slurmdbd version 20.11.9 started [2022-09-08T15:45:23.001] error: unpack_header: protocol_version 8448 not supported [2022-09-08T15:33:57.001] unpacking header [2022-09-08T15:33:57.001] error: destroy_forward: no init [2022-09-08T15:33:57.001] error: slurm_unpack_received_msg: Message receive failure [2022-09-08T15:33:57.011] error: CONN:11 Failed to unpack SLURM_PERSIST_INIT message Any help will be greatly appreciated. Regards, ---------- Wadud Miah Research Computing Support University of Southampton
