Unable to start Slurm controller

[tboo]

Hi there,

I am struggling to start the slurm controller.

I installed the snap package according to the Readme on Ubuntu 22.04.5 Kernel 5.15.0-128-generic. Despite setting $ snap set slurm snap.mode=all I get for $ snap services slurm the following output

Service                          Startup   Current   Notes
slurm.logrotate                  enabled   inactive  timer-activated
slurm.munged                     enabled   active    -
slurm.slurm-prometheus-exporter  disabled  inactive  -
slurm.slurmctld                  disabled  inactive  -
slurm.slurmd                     disabled  active    -
slurm.slurmdbd                   disabled  inactive  -
slurm.slurmrestd                 disabled  inactive  -

$ snap start slurm.slurmctld returns Started but above output remains. My slurm.conf is saved in /var/snap/slurm/common/var/

$ sinfo returns (as expected): slurm_load_partitions: Unable to contact slurm controller (connect failure)

I simply need Slurm on a single node w/o a head node.

I appreciate any guidance. Thanks a lot in advance