[slurm-users] Slurm 18.08 X11 Errors

Nathan R.M. Crawford nrcrawfo at uci.edu
Mon Sep 17 12:47:57 MDT 2018


Hi Luca,

  I hit something similar with 17.11.9-2 (and earlier 17.11 releases) on
CentOS 7.5, but it may not be your issue. For us, the xauth entry generated
through "srun --x11" only has the short hostname, but the entry created
with "ssh -X" has the full host name. Example lines from "xauth list":

c-17-29.gp.local/unix:10  MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1
c0b1421ae0ad5b5b4e84dbc78030a044
c-17-29/unix:66  MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1  0298d5ce95ad67cb3bbfce549d280dc1

  The long hostname works, the short doesn't. Unitl I can figure out where
I mis-configured something (suggestions welcome!), this is the one-liner I
have people use:

xauth add $(hostname)/$(xauth list | grep $(hostname -s)/unix | cut -d/ -f2)

  It has the side effect of accumulating xauth entries (srun normally
deletes the one it creates), so I hope to find a fix before that becomes a
problem.

-Nate

On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 12:27 AM Luca Cenzato <luca.cenzato at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Loris,
>
> yes, I am using "-X"; it's aliased and I forgot to wrote "\ssh -X" in the
> tests.
>
> I forgot also that:
> all servers are running CentOs 7.5;
> I've updated from 17.11.9-2 (not tested, only checked the installation
> procedure)
>
> Thanks!
> Luca
>
>
> Il giorno lun 17 set 2018 alle ore 07:51 Loris Bennett <
> loris.bennett at fu-berlin.de> ha scritto:
>
>> Luca Cenzato <luca.cenzato at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I'm trying to deploy slurm scheduler but I'm facing some issue with
>> x11; I got this error :
>> > srun: error: Cannot forward to local display. Can only use X11
>> forwarding with network displays.
>> > when I try to launch a job from a slurm login to a slurm node.
>> >
>> > Here some tests:
>> >
>> > from notebook [NB] -> slurm login server [SLS] -> slurm node server
>> [SNS]
>> >
>> > ###
>> > ssh
>> > ###
>> >
>> > [NB] : ssh -> [SLS] : xeyes
>>
>> Shouldn't you be using -X when connecting from NB to SLS?
>>
>> > OK
>> >
>> > [NB] : ssh -> [SLS] : \ssh -X [SNS] : xeyes
>> > OK
>> >
>> > [NB] : ssh -> [SLS] : srun --x11 --pty bash -> [SNS] : xeyes
>> > X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication.
>> > Error: Can't open display: localhost:59.0
>> >
>> > ####
>> > x2go
>> > ####
>> >
>> > [NB] : x2go -> [SLS] : xeyes
>> > OK
>> >
>> > [NB] : x2go -> [SLS] : srun --x11 --pty bash
>> > srun: error: Cannot forward to local display. Can only use X11
>> forwarding with network displays.
>> >
>> > [NB] : x2go -> [SLS] : srun --pty bash -> [SNS] : xeyes
>> > Error: Can't open display: :50
>> >
>> > [NB] : x2go -> [SLS] : srun --pty bash -> [SNS] : export
>> DISPLAY=[SLS]:50 ; xeyes
>> > OK
>> >
>> > {same behaviour as X2go for VNC.}
>> >
>> > Any hints please ?
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Luca
>> >
>> --
>> Dr. Loris Bennett (Mr.)
>> ZEDAT, Freie Universität Berlin         Email loris.bennett at fu-berlin.de
>>
>>

-- 

Dr. Nathan Crawford              nathan.crawford at uci.edu
Modeling Facility Director
Department of Chemistry
1102 Natural Sciences II         Office: 2101 Natural Sciences II
University of California, Irvine  Phone: 949-824-4508
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