Failure to start slurmd

[jovial]

RUNNING HANDLER [stackhpc.openhpc : Restart slurmd service] *******************************************************************
skipping: [cclr-dev-control]
fatal: [cclr-dev- @compute-1]: FAILED! => {
    "changed": false
}

MSG:

Unable to start service slurmd: Job for slurmd.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
See "systemctl status slurmd.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.

fatal: [cclr-dev-login-0]: FAILED! => {
    "changed": false
}

from the journal:

9-25 16:19:33 UTC. --
tarting Slurm node daemon...
 slurmd: error: _fetch_child: failed to fetch remote configs: Unexpected message received
 error: _fetch_child: failed to fetch remote configs: Unexpected message received
 slurmd: error: _establish_configuration: failed to load configs
 slurmd: error: slurmd initialization failed
 error: _establish_configuration: failed to load configs
 error: slurmd initialization failed
lurmd.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
lurmd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
ailed to start Slurm node daemon.

Restarting slurmd fixes it. Is this a race on startup? Can we get it to retry?