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I tried to install slurmdbd for accounting on a Ubuntu 16.04 from the standard repositories (version: 15.08.7-1build1).

Here are the commands:

$ sudo apt-get install mysql-server
$ sudo mysql
> create user 'slurm'@'localhost' identified by '123456';
> grant all on *.* TO 'slurm'@'localhost' identified by '123456' with grant option;
> create database slurm_acct_db;
> flush privileges;
> exit
$ sudo apt-get install slurmdbd
$ sudo vi /etc/slurm-llnl/slurmdbd.conf
$ cat /etc/slurm-llnl/slurmdbd.conf
AuthType=auth/munge
AuthInfo=/var/run/munge/munge.socket.2
DbdHost=localhost
DebugLevel=debug5
StorageHost=localhost
StorageLoc=slurm_acct_db
StoragePass=123456
StorageType=accounting_storage/mysql
StorageUser=slurm
LogFile=/var/log/slurm-llnl/slurmdbd.log
PidFile=/var/run/slurm-llnl/slurmdbd.pid
SlurmUser=slurm

However starting slurmdbd fails:

$ sudo systemctl start slurmdbd.service
Job for slurmdbd.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status slurmdbd.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
$ systemctl status slurmdbd.service
● slurmdbd.service - Slurm DBD accounting daemon
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/slurmdbd.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Di 2018-02-06 08:42:59 CET; 21s ago
  Process: 5881 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/slurmdbd $SLURMDBD_OPTIONS (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Feb 06 08:42:59 accslurm systemd[1]: Starting Slurm DBD accounting daemon...
Feb 06 08:42:59 accslurm systemd[1]: slurmdbd.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=1
Feb 06 08:42:59 accslurm systemd[1]: Failed to start Slurm DBD accounting daemon.
Feb 06 08:42:59 accslurm systemd[1]: slurmdbd.service: Unit entered failed state.
Feb 06 08:42:59 accslurm systemd[1]: slurmdbd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
$ journalctl -xe
Feb 06 08:42:59 accslurm systemd[1]: Starting Slurm DBD accounting daemon...
-- Subject: Unit slurmdbd.service has begun start-up
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
-- 
-- Unit slurmdbd.service has begun starting up.
Feb 06 08:42:59 accslurm systemd[1]: slurmdbd.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=1
Feb 06 08:42:59 accslurm systemd[1]: Failed to start Slurm DBD accounting daemon.
-- Subject: Unit slurmdbd.service has failed
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
-- 
-- Unit slurmdbd.service has failed.
-- 
-- The result is failed.

Trying to do so manually with verbose output:

$ sudo -u slurm slurmdbd -Dvvv
slurmdbd: error: mysql_query failed: 1064 You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'ignore table cluster_table modify `creation_time` int unsigned not null, modify ' at line 1
alter ignore table cluster_table modify `creation_time` int unsigned not null, modify `mod_time` int unsigned default 0 not null, modify `deleted` tinyint default 0, modify `name` tinytext not null, modify `control_host` tinytext not null default '', modify `control_port` int unsigned not null default 0, modify `last_port` int unsigned not null default 0, modify `rpc_version` smallint unsigned not null default 0, modify `classification` smallint unsigned default 0, modify `dimensions` smallint unsigned default 1, modify `plugin_id_select` smallint unsigned default 0, modify `flags` int unsigned default 0, drop primary key, add primary key (name(20));
slurmdbd: Accounting storage MYSQL plugin failed
slurmdbd: error: Couldn't load specified plugin name for accounting_storage/mysql: Plugin init() callback failed
slurmdbd: error: cannot create accounting_storage context for accounting_storage/mysql
slurmdbd: fatal: Unable to initialize accounting_storage/mysql accounting storage plugin

So it seems there is an error in the syntax for the creation of the database?

Did I miss something?

Sethos II
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I don't know whether it's supposed to be resolved by manually downgrading to older mysql version or by tweaking slurmdbd. But the root cause is that alter ignore table has been removed from mysql 5.7. It looks like you use "old syntax" SQL statements with a "new syntax" engine.

kubanczyk
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    Thank you for the hint. I installed 5.6 from 14.04 for now, which works but isn't a great solution: `sudo add-apt-repository 'deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty universe'; sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install mysql-server-5.6` – Sethos II Feb 06 '18 at 10:04