Hi Russell Jones, I believe you are using a slurm version older than 19.05. X11 forwarding code has been revamped and it works as expected starting from the 19.05.0 version.
On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 10:02 PM Russell Jones <arjone...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > Hoping I can get pointed in the right direction here. > > I have X11 forwarding enabled in Slurm, however I cannot seem to get it > working properly. It works when I test with "ssh -Y" to the compute node > from the login node, however when I try through Slurm the Display variable > looks very different, and I get an error. Example below: > > [user@cluster-1 ~]$ ssh -Y cluster-cn02 > Last login: Mon Nov 16 10:09:18 2020 from 172.21.150.10 > -bash-4.2$ env | grep -i display > DISPLAY=172.21.150.102:10.0 > -bash-4.2$ xclock > Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion > ** Clock pops up and works ** > > [user@cluster-1 ~]$ srun -p cluster -w cluster-cn02 --x11 --pty bash -l > bash-4.2$ env | grep -i display > DISPLAY=localhost:28.0 > bash-4.2$ xclock > Error: Can't open display: localhost:28.0 > > > Any ideas on where to begin looking? I'm not sure why the display variable > is being set to localhost instead of the login node. > > Thanks! > > -- Regards..... Sathish
