Yes, 'salloc --x11' followed by 'ssh -X' to the allocated node works. 'hostname' command gives me the short hostname. However /etc/localhost contains 'localhost' not the short hostname. I will experiement with that.
These nodes are all running Ubuntu 20.04 LTS by the way. Allan Tina Friedrich <tina.friedr...@it.ox.ac.uk> writes: > I remember having problems in that it worked via SSH - did you check > that (i.e. if you 'ssh -X' to a node it works?) - but not via SLURM. > > That seemed to be authorization, and the way the SLURM inbuild method > generated the magic cookies - it couldn't cope with the node hostname > being it's FQDN, it needed it to be the short hostname. I 'fixed' it by > changing all the nodes' hostnames to short format :) (CentOS uses long > by default, but it's not as if I really care). > > Tina > -- Allan Streib Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering Indiana University
