slurmctld (18.08.5.2-1) unstable; urgency=medium If you are upgrading Slurm from stretch or an older version of Debian, please make sure there is no job running in your cluster: upgrading directly from a version earlier than 17.02 will result in loss of state information. Even if you plan to quick upgrade from 14.03 -> 15.08 -> 16.05 -> 17.02, you will need to wait until after those jobs are gone before you upgrade to 18.08. The pid file for the slurmctld and slurmd daemons has been moved to /run, the installation process will update /etc/slurm-llnl/slurm.conf for you if it points to the original location under /var/run/slurm-llnl The default value are now: SlurmctldPidFile=/run/slurmctld.pid SlurmdPidFile=/run/slurmd.pid These parameters can be omitted. Please be sure to update the value of these parameters on your cluster configuration management system or if you set them in a file using the Include directive. -- Gennaro Oliva Sat, 16 Feb 2019 14:10:46 +0100