Permission 'batch.states.report' denied

[matt1851]

I'm submitting a google cloud batch job as service account with roles 

* Batch agent reporter

* Batch job editor

* Logs Writer

The logs show repeated permission errors 

rpc error: code = PermissionDenied desc = Permission 'batch.states.report' denied on 'projects/.../locations/europe-west2/state'. Retrying in 4m28s

There are no updates in the console until the event 

OPERATIONAL INFO no VM has agent reporting correctly within the time window 1080 seconds

appears, followed by completion with status

Failed

It looks like there is some permission error connected with the logging, but I think I've set all the permissions described in https://cloud.google.com/batch/docs/troubleshooting

[bolianyin]

It appears that you assigned batch.agentReporter role to  the job submitter service account. Instead, you should make sure the service account attached to the VM have the batch.agentReporter role. By default, the VM service account is the project's Compute Engine default service account (in format of <projectNumber>-compute@developer.gserviceaccount.com ), which can be changed using serviceAccount field in allocationPolicy of the job.