On job step launch failure, the function
"slurm_step_launch_wait_finish()" will be called twice in launch/slurm,
which causes srun to be aborted:

srun: error: Task launch for 22495.0 failed on node cn6: Job credential
expired
srun: error: Application launch failed: Job credential expired
srun: Job step aborted: Waiting up to 2 seconds for job step to finish.
cn5
cn4
cn7
srun: error: Timed out waiting for job step to complete
srun: Job step aborted: Waiting up to 2 seconds for job step to finish.
srun: error: Timed out waiting for job step to complete
srun: bitstring.c:174: bit_test: Assertion `(b) != ((void *)0)' failed.
Aborted (core dumped)

The attached patch(version 2.5.1) fixes it. But the message of
"
Job step aborted: Waiting up to 2 seconds for job step to finish.
Timed out waiting for job step to complete
"
will still be printed twice.

User root or SlurmUser don't need valid sbcast credential

One of our testers has observed that when a long running job continues to run after a maintenance reservation comes into effect sinfo reports the node as being in the allocated state while scontrol shows it to be in the maintenance state.

This can happen when a node is not completely allocated. (select cons_res, a partition which is not Shared=EXCLUSIVE, jobs allocated without –exclusive, or jobs that are allocated only some of the cpus on a node.)

Execution paths leading up to calls to node_state_string  (slurm_protocol_defs.c) or node_state_string_compact, in scontrol, test for allocated_cpus less that total_cpus on the node and set the node state to MIXED rather than ALLOCATED, while similar paths in sinfo do not.

I think this is probably a bug, since the mixed state is defined and think it is desirable that both command return the same result.

The problem can be fixed with two logic changes (in multiple places)

1)        node_state_string and node_state_string_compact have to check for mixed as well as allocated before returning the MAINT state. This means that the reported state for the node with the allocated job will be MIXED.

2)        Sinfo must also check allocated_cpus less than total_cpus and set the state to MIXED before calling either node_state_string or node_state_string_compact.

The attached patch (against 2.5.1) makes these changes. The attached script is a test case.

Command line argument would not be processed, but scontrol would
exit immediately