Hello group, hopefully a quick one:
I am trying to install the suite of standard slurm packages (slurm, munge, slurmdbd, slurm-wlm-basic-plugins) on a compute node. Ubuntu 22.04.05 LTS just upgraded.
*However, these packages now bring down x11 (libx11-6 and all of that other garbage in Ubuntu land). *
Does slurm actually depend on x11 now? Or do I need to take a look at my apt config and see what's going on over there, instead.
Thanks! Jess
On 6/25/25 11:39 am, Jesse Hayward via slurm-users wrote:
Does slurm actually depend on x11 now?
My guess would be that is coming from the sview package, which is an X11 program. Why that would be getting pulled in is what I think you'd want to look for.
https://slurm.schedmd.com/sview.html
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/jammy/+package/sview
But if I'm reading that right the version in Ubuntu 22.04 is ancient (21.08.5).
All the best, Chris
On 2025/06/25 23:39, Jesse Hayward via slurm-users wrote:
Does slurm actually depend on x11 now? Or do I need to take a look at my apt config and see what's going on over there, instead.
TL;DR: it doesn't have to - but you might need to buid your own DEB-files
Looking at the SPEC file in the head of the GitHub repo sources, sees this documented:
# build options .rpmmacros options change to default action # ==================== ==================== ======================== ... # --without x11 %_without_x11 1 disable internal X11 support ...
and there's a corresponding
%bcond_without x11
statement.
That would suggest that "the builder" can turn it off when running the configure
To echo Chris's thoughts as well, I'm sure I have asked SchedMD about sview in the past (think I was in a different country too), but I can't now recall what their justification, for needing to pull in the GUI stuff there, was.
FWIW,
If I do an rpm -qR against the RPMs we have on our login nodes then I can see some "obvious" GUI-bits
libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0()(64bit) libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0()(64bit) libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0()(64bit) libpango-1.0.so.0()(64bit) libpangocairo-1.0.so.0()(64bit) libpangoft2-1.0.so.0()(64bit)
but, sadly, they are all requirements for the "main"
slurm
package, which deployes sview, and not, as one might hope
slurm-contribs
where you might hope to find them, or even completely off-side in some (currently non-existing)
slurm-contribs-gui
package.
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Kevin Buckley