[slurm-users] About x11 support

[Chris Samuel]

On Friday, 23 November 2018 7:34:42 PM AEDT Mahmood Naderan wrote:

> Now, the question is, why the following error happens when we now that x11
> support had been enabled during the compilation.
> 
> [mahmood at rocks7 ~]$ srun --x11 --nodelist=compute-0-5 -n 1 -c 6 --mem=8G -A
> y8 -p RUBY xclock
> srun: error: Cannot forward to local display. Can only use X11 forwarding
> with network displays.

As explained elsewhere in this thread, it's a limitation in Slurm.

I suspect if you do:

echo $DISPLAY

it will say something like :0 and Slurm doesn't allow that at present.

All the best,
Chris
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