[torqueusers] Problem starting pbs_server

[Garrick Staples]

On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 03:56:58PM +0100, Anthony Pemberton alleged:
> Hi folks,
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> I am new to using Torque. I am having a problem restarting the
> pbs_server deamon after a problem with too many jobs being scheduled. At
> least that is what I think the problem was. When I try to restart (I
> have tried a reboot of the server node) the pbs_server with:
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> service pbs_server start
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> I get the response:
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> Starting TORQUE server:
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> But then I just get a hang. There are a number of related processed
> started:
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> /bin/sh /sbin/service pbs_server start
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> /bin/sh /etc/init.d/pbs_server start
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> initlog -q -c /usr/sbin/pbs_server -t create
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> /usr/sbin/pbs_server -t create
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> Any ideas as to how I can restart the server properly?

Since pbs_server is being started with "-t create", it is probably
trying to prompt you about recovering jobs.

I'd kill off all processes and, if you need to actually create a new
serverdb, run it once manually.

It is unclear to me at this point why you are want to create a new
serverdb.