Pbs service is not starting on compute node after installation

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Hi ,
Some one please help me on the below error. when i try to start pbs on compute node throwing below erro

[root@usflmia-xs01 ~]# /etc/init.d/pbs start
Starting PBS
pbs_mom: Operation not permitted (1) in chk_file_sec, Security violation “/1a/scratch” resolves to “/1a/scratch”
pbs_mom: parse_config, config[3] command “$jobdir_root /1a/scratch” failed, aborting
/opt/pbs/sbin/pbs_mom: config file(s) parsing failed
pbs_mom startup failed, exit 1 aborting.
[root@usflmia-xs01 ~]#

Below is configuration file
[root@usflmia-xs01 ~]# cat /var/spool/pbs/mom_priv/config
$clienthost usmina09
$restrict_user_maxsysid 2999
$jobdir_root /1a/scratch
$usecp *:/1a/staging/ /1a/staging/
$usecp *:/home_local/ /home_local/
$restrict_user_maxsysid 999
[root@usflmia-xs01 ~]#

2

What are the modes on /1a/scratch? They should be 1777 (drwxrwxrwt).

Also, depending on the version of PBS, if /1a/scratch is a shared directory (e.g., NFS), you should use

$jobdir_root /1a/scratch/ shared

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Hi Some one please help on below issue. Ater installing pbs pro 2021. while starting the service getting below errors

[root@blcl3002 pbs]# /etc/init.d/pbs start
Starting PBS
PBS Home directory /var/spool/pbs needs updating.
Running /opt/pbs/libexec/pbs_habitat to update it.

/opt/pbs/bin/qstat: error while loading shared libraries: libcrypto.so.10: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
*** Could not obtain PBS version from qstat
[root@blcl3002 pbs]#

4

Please install compat-openssl

5

Hi Adarsh,

Thanks for your help … After installing PBS pro and adding nodes to the cluster .
While submitting jobs. The jobs are waiting in the queue and getting error “No available resources on nodes”

Here is the output
[root@blcl3000 ~]# qstat -ans

blcl3000:
Req’d Req’d Elap
Job ID Username Queue Jobname SessID NDS TSK Memory Time S Time

61.blcl3000 localad* workq STDIN – 1 10 – – Q –
–
Not Running: No available resources on nodes … Please help me on the issue .
[root@blcl3000 ~]# tracejob 61.blcl3000

Job: 61.blcl3000

04/12/2023 14:23:20 L Considering job to run
04/12/2023 14:23:20 S Job Queued at request of localadmin@blcl3000.aptiv.com, owner = localadmin@blcl3000.aptiv.com, job name = STDIN, queue = workq
04/12/2023 14:23:20 S Job Modified at request of Scheduler@blcl3000.aptiv.com
04/12/2023 14:23:20 L No available resources on nodes
04/12/2023 14:23:20 S enqueuing into workq, state Q hop 1
04/12/2023 14:23:20 A user=localadmin group=hp_euc_admin project=_pbs_project_default jobname=STDIN queue=workq ctime=1681289600 qtime=1681289600 etime=1681289600
Resource_List.ncpus=10 Resource_List.nodect=1 Resource_List.place=free Resource_List.select=1:ncpus=10
[root@blcl3000 ~]#

[root@blcl3000 ~]# pbsnodes -av
blcl3001
Mom = blcl3001.aptiv.com
Port = 15002
pbs_version = 2022.1.1.20220926110806
ntype = PBS
state = free
pcpus = 48
resources_available.arch = linux
resources_available.host = blcl3001
resources_available.mem = 1054141352kb
resources_available.ncpus = 48
resources_available.vnode = blcl3001
resources_assigned.accelerator_memory = 0kb
resources_assigned.hbmem = 0kb
resources_assigned.mem = 0kb
resources_assigned.naccelerators = 0
resources_assigned.ncpus = 0
resources_assigned.vmem = 0kb
resv_enable = True
sharing = default_shared
last_state_change_time = Wed Apr 12 14:22:33 2023
server_instance_id = blcl3000.aptiv.com:15001

[root@blcl3000 ~]#

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The node is not licensed , hence jobs are not running on that node.
Please share the output of qstat -Bf