Indeed - am I the only person that finds that quite a bit annoying? A lot of interactive software works a lot better over things like NX, so why this limitation?
Tina (I realise I'm not adding much the discussion, probably :) ) On 15/05/2019 08:36, Marcus Wagner wrote: > Dear Mahmood, > > please open a console in the VNC session, do a ssh -Y rocks7 in the > console (yes, relogin to the console) and try it again. > SLURM does not want to use local displays, and a VNC session is a > "local" display, as far as it concerns linux and the X11 subsystem. > So, you need to relogin or login to another frontend node by ssh to get > a remote display. > > > Best > Marcus > > On 5/15/19 7:21 AM, Mahmood Naderan wrote: >> >No, but you'll need to logout of rocks7 and ssh back into it. >> >Are you physically logged into rocks7? Or are you connecting via SSH? >> $DISPLAY = :1 kind of means that you are physically logged into the >> machine >> >> >> I am connecting through a vnc session. Right now, I have access to the >> desktop of the frontend and I open a terminal and run things. >> I even >> xclock is working on the frontend and compute-0-0 (through ssh -Y). >> >> >> Regards, >> Mahmood >> >> >> >> > > -- > Marcus Wagner, Dipl.-Inf. > > IT Center > Abteilung: Systeme und Betrieb > RWTH Aachen University > Seffenter Weg 23 > 52074 Aachen > Tel: +49 241 80-24383 > Fax: +49 241 80-624383 > wag...@itc.rwth-aachen.de > www.itc.rwth-aachen.de >
