diff --git a/contribs/cray/capmc_resume.c b/contribs/cray/capmc_resume.c
index b6496fb7058214cced98bc6cab81c5a6b5ded47c..1d84b80f8933f58c3de6f8559e2e23594ea83f6e 100644
--- a/contribs/cray/capmc_resume.c
+++ b/contribs/cray/capmc_resume.c
@@ -416,7 +416,9 @@ static int _update_all_nodes(char *host_list)
 			}
 			error("%s: capmc(%s,%s,%s): %d %s", prog_name,
 			      argv[1], argv[2], argv[3], status, resp_msg);
-			if (resp_msg && strstr(resp_msg, "Could not lookup") &&
+			if (resp_msg &&
+			    (strstr(resp_msg, "Could not lookup") ||
+			     strstr(resp_msg, "Internal server error")) &&
 			    (retry <= capmc_retries)) {
 				/* State Manager is down. Sleep and retry */
 				sleep(1);
diff --git a/src/plugins/node_features/knl_cray/node_features_knl_cray.c b/src/plugins/node_features/knl_cray/node_features_knl_cray.c
index 44ba897331fe278fedc37708499f51d660c8fb19..994172fc324bb8a2ac664fcbcd655eecba4dedc7 100644
--- a/src/plugins/node_features/knl_cray/node_features_knl_cray.c
+++ b/src/plugins/node_features/knl_cray/node_features_knl_cray.c
@@ -232,6 +232,8 @@ typedef struct numa_cfg2 {
 	char *numa_cfg;
 } numa_cfg2_t;
 
+static void _check_node_disabled(void);
+static void _check_node_status(void);
 static s_p_hashtbl_t *_config_make_tbl(char *filename);
 static void _free_script_argv(char **script_argv);
 static mcdram_cap_t *_json_parse_mcdram_cap_array(json_object *jobj, char *key,
@@ -1751,7 +1753,7 @@ extern int node_features_p_reconfig(void)
 	return SLURM_SUCCESS;
 }
 
-/* Put any node NOT found by "capmc node_status" into DRAIN state */
+/* Put any nodes NOT found by "capmc node_status" into DRAIN state */
 static void _check_node_status(void)
 {
 	json_object *j_obj;
@@ -1861,6 +1863,33 @@ static void _check_node_status(void)
 	}
 }
 
+/* Put any disabled nodes into DRAIN state */
+static void _check_node_disabled(void)
+{
+/* FIXME: To be added
+ *
+ * STEP 0 (for testing), disable/enable nodes:
+ * > xtcli disable ${TARGET_NODE}
+ * > xtcli enable ${TARGET_NODE}
+ *
+ * STEP 1: Identify disabled compute nodes
+ * > xtshow --compute --disabled
+ * L1s ...
+ * L0s ...
+ * Nodes ...
+ * c0-0c0s7n0:    -|  disabled  [noflags|]
+ * SeaStars ...
+ * Links ...
+ * c1-0c2s1s1l1:    -|  disabled  [noflags|]
+ *
+ * STEP 2: Map cname to nid name
+ * > rtr -Im ${TARGET_BLADE}
+ *
+ * STEP 3: Drain the disabled compute nodes
+ * See logic in _check_node_status() above.
+ */
+}
+
 /* Update only the current MCDRAM and NUMA mode for identified nodes */
 static int _update_current_mode(char *node_list)
 {
@@ -1930,7 +1959,8 @@ extern int node_features_p_get_node(char *node_list)
 	}
 	slurm_mutex_unlock(&config_mutex);
 
-	_check_node_status();	/* Flag nodes not found by capmc */
+	_check_node_status();	/* Drain nodes not found by capmc */
+	_check_node_disabled();	/* Drain disabled nodes */
 
 	if (mcdram_per_node && node_list &&	/* Selected node updated and */
 	    (mcdram_pct[0] != -1))		/* have needd global info */
diff --git a/testsuite/expect/test1.113 b/testsuite/expect/test1.113
index 1a4a98d4359609ed2503f974e3a225008d379002..0e852e2be57ff2d5df2eb8f3f28d9127bcd0566a 100755
--- a/testsuite/expect/test1.113
+++ b/testsuite/expect/test1.113
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ if {$matches < $needed_nodes} {
 
 set nodes 0
 set timeout $max_job_delay
-set srun_pid [spawn $srun -p $partition -N1-2 --use-min-nodes -n$ncpus --ntasks-per-thread=1--cpu-bind=thread $bin_printenv SLURM_NNODES]
+set srun_pid [spawn $srun -p $partition -N1-2 --use-min-nodes -n$ncpus $bin_printenv SLURM_NNODES]
 expect {
 	-re "($number)" {
 		set nodes $expect_out(1,string)
diff --git a/testsuite/expect/test15.39 b/testsuite/expect/test15.39
index a7e6218beddf6b2f5c573b645e5f93393f1d52f7..de2d751a98d1c8ed4694e03ee84232878254b67b 100755
--- a/testsuite/expect/test15.39
+++ b/testsuite/expect/test15.39
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ if {$matches < $needed_nodes} {
 
 set job_id 0
 set timeout $max_job_delay
-set salloc_pid [spawn $salloc -p $partition -N1-2 --use-min-nodes -n$ncpus --hint=nomultithread $bin_printenv SLURM_NNODES]
+set salloc_pid [spawn $salloc -p $partition -N1-2 --use-min-nodes -n$ncpus $bin_printenv SLURM_NNODES]
 #set salloc_pid [spawn $salloc -p $partition -N1-2 -n$ncpus $bin_printenv SLURM_NNODES]
 expect {
 	-re "Granted job allocation ($number)" {
diff --git a/testsuite/expect/test17.63 b/testsuite/expect/test17.63
index ffaf3f381daf3ce1f52c7665eaaa9785911b317b..046bfa37285024b4529f82b192c6ca129921f889 100755
--- a/testsuite/expect/test17.63
+++ b/testsuite/expect/test17.63
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ make_bash_script $file_in "
 
 set cwd "[$bin_pwd]"
 make_bash_script $file_script "
-  $sbatch -p $partition -N1-2 --use-min-nodes -n$ncpus --hint=nomultithread --output=$file_out --error=$file_err $cwd/$file_in
+  $sbatch -p $partition -N1-2 --use-min-nodes -n$ncpus --output=$file_out --error=$file_err $cwd/$file_in
   exit 0
 "