[slurm-users] unable to create directory '/run/user/14325/dconf': Permission denied. dconf will not work properly.

[Paul Raines]

This is most likely because your XDG* environment variables are being copied 
into the job environment.  We do the following in our taskprolog script

echo "unset XDG_RUNTIME_DIR"
echo "unset XDG_SESSION_ID"
echo "unset XDG_DATA_DIRS"



-- Paul Raines (http://help.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu)



On Wed, 17 Mar 2021 5:45pm, Prentice Bisbal wrote:

> I when I use  Emacs in an interactive session started with salloc like this, 
> for example:
>
> salloc -n 1 -t 5:00:00 --mem-per-cpu=4000 --x11
>
> a bunch of messages like this are spit out in the terminal window:
>
> (emacs:2105): dconf-CRITICAL **: 17:40:01.497: unable to create directory 
> '/run/user/41266/dconf': Permission denied.  dconf will not work properly.
>
> When I ssh directly to the same compute node, and start emacs, those errors 
> aren't produced.
>
> Any ideas why salloc produces those errors? Is it a cgroups thing? I know 
> emacs isn't a high-priority HPC tool, but I do have users who use it when 
> editing and debugging code in an interactive sessions - they're the ones who 
> reported this. These errors seem harmless, but I'd like to make them go away, 
> if possible.
>
> I've done my share of googling on these error messages, but couldn't find any 
> solutions that applied to this case.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> -- 
> Prentice
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