Re: [slurm-users] X11 debug

2018-05-17 Thread Marco Ehlert
On Thu, 17 May 2018, Nadav Toledo wrote: Hello everyone, After fighting with x11 forwarding couple of weeks, I think i've got a few tips that can help others. I am using slurm 17.11.6 with builtin x11 forwarding with ubuntu server distro, all servers in cluster share /home via beegfs. slurm w

Re: [slurm-users] x11 for interactive jobs

2018-05-15 Thread Marco Ehlert
Hi, if you are compiling slurm 17.11.5 the --x11 option will be in only if libssh2.so is installed before. Otherwise there will be no such option. Best, Marco IT-Support Max-Planck-Institute of Colloids Tel: +49-(0)331-567-9650 and InterfacesFax:

[slurm-users] x11 requires root write access to .Xauthority

2018-05-15 Thread Marco Ehlert
Hi, in slurm 17.11.5 I just realized that slurmstepd tries to add the X11 magic cookie into .Xauthority inside root context in order to make x11 natively work. The filesystem has to be configured to allow this. I did this now, but I am wondering why it could not be done in the user's context