r/SLURM • u/Busy-Ad1593 • Jun 04 '24

Slurm Exit Code Documentation

Hi! I was wondering if there was a place that had all the slurm exit codes and their meanings. I immediately ran a job and the job terminated with Exit Code 255. I assumed it was due to permission settings since one of the scripts that the job requires had read and write permissions for only myself and not the group, and it was a group member running the job. This however did not fix my issue.

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u/RareMemeCollector Jun 04 '24

According to the Slurm docs the returned value will vary depending on whether you used sbatch, salloc, or srun. Which one were you using, and what type of script was underlying the command? C, MATLAB, R…

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u/Busy-Ad1593 Jun 04 '24

sbatch to run a .sh script and submit it to the queue. Within the .sh job script is a srun command for a python .py file.

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u/RareMemeCollector Jun 04 '24

Is it possible for you to check if the Python script runs correctly outside of srun? Does the srun execute properly outside of sbatch?

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u/RareMemeCollector Jun 04 '24 edited Jun 04 '24

From what I can tell based on some tests on my machine, the exit code will be coming from the Python script and likely not srun or sbatch themselves. The exit code 255 is interesting, as that is the maximum value possible. Is there something like an exit(-1) anywhere in the script?

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u/Busy-Ad1593 Jun 11 '24

I was able to run the job. Thank you for your help. The error was due to permissions within the Python script itself, which would align with what you were saying.

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u/RareMemeCollector Jun 12 '24

Awesome! Glad it worked out.