Hi Mahmood,
On Saturday, 24 November 2018 6:52:54 AM AEDT Mahmood Naderan wrote:
> >I suspect if you do:
> >echo $DISPLAY
> >it will say something like :0 and Slurm doesn't allow that at present.
>
> Actually that is not applicable here. Please see below
>
> [mahmood@rocks7 ~]$ echo $DISPLAY
>
> :1
Sadly that's exactly what I'm saying. Your $DISPLAY variable is : followed
by a number and that's what I'm saying that Slurm forbids, though I'm not
clear why. The code checks like this:
if (display[0] == ':') {
error("Cannot forward to local display. "
"Can only use X11 forwarding with network displays.");
exit(-1);
}
As your $DISPLAY starts with a : (signifying a local display) it will be
rejected.
That code was introduced in a block by this commit so unfortunately there's no
reasoning for this given.
commit e3140b7f8d96ced9dc85089caa65dd7c6be396fd
Author: Tim Wickberg <t...@schedmd.com>
Date: Wed Sep 20 12:09:34 2017 -0600
Add new x11_util.c file to src/common.
Utility functions for new x11 forwarding implementation.
All the best,
Chris
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