Issue starting PBS

[honeyxdyj]

Hi, mkaro

Finally I got it running correctly, the upgrade issue is due to the firewall…
Shutdown the firewall of the system and then PBS can works well, thanks for your advices again~

[spalanisamy1]

My recent install failed, RHEL 7.5 and PBSpro 18.1.2

Install server and start the service

/etc/init.d/pbs start
Starting PBS
PBS Home directory /var/spool/pbs needs updating.
Running /opt/pbs/libexec/pbs_habitat to update it.

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PBS Data Service user should not have root priviledges
[root@pbs pbspro_18.1.2.centos7]# /etc/init.d/pbs start
Starting PBS
PBS Home directory /var/spool/pbs needs updating.
Running /opt/pbs/libexec/pbs_habitat to update it.

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*** Error initializing the PBS dataservice
Error details:
Creating the PBS Data Service…
The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user “pbsdata”.
This user must also own the server process.

The database cluster will be initialized with locale “en_US.UTF-8”.
The default text search configuration will be set to “english”.

initdb: could not access directory “/var/spool/pbs/datastore”: Permission denied
Error creating PBS datastore

[adarsh]

Please follow these links:

Problem starting PBS server

PBSPro uses pgsql to store the server configuration, and comes with a pgsql embedded (see rpm -ql pbspro-server). You will need to create a new system-level user, typically called ‘pbsdata’, and ensure that /var/spool/pbs/datastore is owned by that user. The RPM does not automatically create that user, which is not obvious, in my opinion. I would do this on a new PBSPro install: groupadd pbsdata useradd -g pbsdata -r pbsdata mkdir -p /var/spool/pbs/datastore chown pbsdata:pbsdata /var/spool/pbs…

Problem starting PBS server

Just to clarify… the commercial version of PBS Pro comes packaged with PostgreSQL, where the open source version lists PostgreSQL as a prerequisite. When PostgreSQL is installed independently of PBS Pro it creates a user named postgres, and the open source release uses that user ID for the PBS Pro database. I’ve seen cases where the ownership of the PBS Pro database directory has been inadvertently changed. This can be fixed with the following command: chown -R postgres:postgres /var/spool/pbs/…

[prakashcv13]

@spalanisamy1 - the issue you have reported is being resolved through PP-1284. However, thank you for reporting it to us.

[spalanisamy1]

Hello Prakash,

The status I see is “unresolved”

Has this problem really resolved?

[prakashcv13]

Hi @spalanisamy1 - No, it is Work in Progress.

[prakashcv13]

Hi @spalanisamy1 - The issue is because of the postgresql version that is installed by default. On updating to a newer version, I was able to start PBS. I have updated PP-1284 with my findings in this comment.