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

[Prentice Bisbal]

Thanks. That's most likely it. I haven't had a chance to test yet.

Prentice Bisbal
Lead Software Engineer
Research Computing
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
http://www.pppl.gov

On 3/17/21 8:31 PM, Paul Raines wrote:
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> This is most likely because your XDG* environment variables are being 
> copied into the job environment.  We do the following in our 
> taskprolog script
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> echo "unset XDG_RUNTIME_DIR"
> echo "unset XDG_SESSION_ID"
> echo "unset XDG_DATA_DIRS"
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> -- Paul Raines (http://help.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu)
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> On Wed, 17 Mar 2021 5:45pm, Prentice Bisbal wrote:
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>> I when I use  Emacs in an interactive session started with salloc 
>> like this, for example:
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>> salloc -n 1 -t 5:00:00 --mem-per-cpu=4000 --x11
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>> a bunch of messages like this are spit out in the terminal window:
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>> (emacs:2105): dconf-CRITICAL **: 17:40:01.497: unable to create 
>> directory '/run/user/41266/dconf': Permission denied.  dconf will not 
>> work properly.
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>> When I ssh directly to the same compute node, and start emacs, those 
>> errors aren't produced.
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>> 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.
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>> I've done my share of googling on these error messages, but couldn't 
>> find any solutions that applied to this case.
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>> Any ideas?
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>> -- 
>> Prentice
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