If a slurmd goes DOWN with a COMPLETING job, then mark that job as

COMPLETED and the node as DOWN (rather than leave COMPLETING).

NEWS

 This file describes changes in recent versions of SLURM. It primarily
 documents those changes that are of interest to users and admins. 
 
+* Changes in SLURM 0.5.0-pre9
+=============================
+ -- If a job and node are in COMPLETING state and slurmd stops responding for
+    SlurmdTimeout, then set the node DOWN and the job COMPLETED.
+ 
 * Changes in SLURM 0.5.0-pre8
 =============================
  -- BlueGene srun --geometry was not getting propogated properly.

src/slurmctld/ping_nodes.c

@@ -168,7 +168,6 @@ void ping_nodes (void)
 		if ((node_ptr->last_response != (time_t)0) &&
 		    (node_ptr->last_response <= node_dead_time) &&
 		    ((base_state != NODE_STATE_DOWN) &&
-		     (base_state != NODE_STATE_COMPLETING) &&
 		     (base_state != NODE_STATE_DRAINED))) {
 			if (down_hostlist)
 				(void) hostlist_push_host(down_hostlist,