[slurm-users] x11 forwarding not available?

[Dave Botsch]

That's not the issue, here (though I have experienced that before).
Regular ssh forwarding works fine.

On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 09:47:21AM +0100, Tina Friedrich wrote:
> I had an issue getting x11 forwarding via SLURM (srun/sbatch) to work; ssh 
> worked fine. Tracked it down to the host name setting on the nodes; as per 
> RedHat/CentOS default, the hostname was set to the fully qualified. Turns out 
> SLURMs X11 forwarding doesn't work with that; setting the hostnames to the 
> short hostname made it all magically work. 
> 
> Tina
> 
> On Tuesday, 16 October 2018 09:29:01 BST Olivier Sallou wrote:
> > On 10/16/2018 01:07 AM, Dave Botsch wrote:
> > > Hi.
> > > 
> > > X11 forwarding is enabled and works for normal ssh.
> > 
> > I faced same issue, with ssh x11 working as expected on compute nodes,
> > but not with slurm -x11.
> > 
> > I patched slurm locally to make it work.
> > 
> > what you can try to see if it is the same issue:
> > 
> > 
> > srun -n1 --pty --x11 --pty bash
> > 
> > 
> > # xterm
> > // you should have an authorization failure error
> > 
> > // on connected node
> > # xauth list
> > 
> > you will have a list of MAGIC COOKIE like
> > 
> > myslurmmaster/unix:10  MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1  YYYYYY
> > myslurmnode/unix:52  MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1  XXXXXX
> > 
> > # echo $DISPLAY
> > localhost:52.0
> > 
> > 
> > To make it work manually I did (of course adapting node names and
> > display port number):
> > 
> > xauth remove myslurmnode/unix:52
> > xauth add localhost:52.0
> > 
> > then xterm (for example) worked.
> > 
> > If this is the same problem, slurm can be easilly patched to work (can
> > give you how)
> > 
> > Olivier
> > 
> > > Thanks.
> > > 
> > > On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 09:55:59PM +0000, Rhian Resnick wrote:
> > >> Double check /etc/ssh/sshd_config allows X11 forwarding on the node as it
> > >> is disable by default. (I think)
> > >> 
> > >> 
> > >> X11Forwarding yes
> > >> 
> > >> 
> > >> 
> > >> 
> > >> Rhian Resnick
> > >> 
> > >> Associate Director Research Computing
> > >> 
> > >> Enterprise Systems
> > >> 
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> > >> 
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> > >> ________________________________
> > >> From: slurm-users <slurm-users-bounces at lists.schedmd.com> on behalf of
> > >> Dave Botsch <botsch at cnf.cornell.edu> Sent: Monday, October 15, 2018 5:51
> > >> PM
> > >> To: slurm-users at lists.schedmd.com
> > >> Subject: [slurm-users] x11 forwarding not available?
> > >> 
> > >> 
> > >> 
> > >> Wanted to test X11 forwarding. X11 forwarding works as a normal user
> > >> just ssh'ing to a node and running xterm/etc.
> > >> 
> > >> With srun, however:
> > >> 
> > >> srun -n1 --pty --x11 xterm
> > >> srun: error: Unable to allocate resources: X11 forwarding not available
> > >> 
> > >> So, what am I missing?
> > >> 
> > >> Thanks.
> > >> 
> > >> PS
> > >> 
> > >> srun --version
> > >> slurm 17.11.7
> > >> 
> > >> rpm -qa |grep slurm
> > >> ohpc-slurm-server-1.3.5-8.1.x86_64
> > >> ...
> > >> 
> > >> 
> > >> --
> > >> ********************************
> > >> David William Botsch
> > >> Programmer/Analyst
> > >> @CNFComputing
> > >> botsch at cnf.cornell.edu
> > >> ********************************
> > >> --
> > >> ********************************
> > >> David William Botsch
> > >> Programmer/Analyst
> > >> @CNFComputing
> > >> botsch at cnf.cornell.edu
> > >> ********************************
> 
> 
> -- 
> Tina Friedrich, Snr HPC Systems Administrator, Advanced Research Computing
> Research Computing and Support Services, Academic IT 
> IT Services, University of Oxford 
> http://www.arc.ox.ac.uk
> 

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