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GrueMaster
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5 years ago

At least one S10 system fails to launch X2Go

I have been testing our solution on the S10 platforms, part of which requires a web browser to view our demo UI. X2Go is the simplest solution for this currently (we'll look at tunneling later). s...
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5 years ago

Steps to reproduce:

  1. ssh devcloud
  2. pbsnodes -s v-qsvr-fpga|fgrep -A1 s005-n008 # verify system is free before next steps
  3. qsub -q batch@v-qsvr-fpga -I -l nodes=s005-n008:ppn=2 # to get an interactive shell
  4. (In a new terminal on your desktop)
  5. ssh -L 4002:s005-n008:22 devcloud # this establishes the X2Go tunnel
  6. Launch X2Go client per instructions.
  7. Observe that xfce4-session fails to launch.

The above steps work on other systems I have tested so far.

  • BoonBengT_Altera's avatar
    BoonBengT_Altera
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    5 years ago

    Hi @GrueMaster,

    Thank you for posting in Intel community forum and hope this message find you well.
    We are still trying to investigate further on this, but as a high level analysis I am suspecting that it might be a missed in some configuration.
    Please do refer to the following suggest in the link here to see if that works.

    Warm regards.
    BB

    • GrueMaster's avatar
      GrueMaster
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      5 years ago

      So, given the fact that it works on multiple other systems EXCEPT s005-n008, you thing it is something wrong with my local x2go setup? Really?

      • BoonBengT_Altera's avatar
        BoonBengT_Altera
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        5 years ago

        Hi @GrueMaster,

        Apologies on the late response and also I missed out the noted mentioning it is working on other nodes.
        After some investigation it seem that the particular mention nodes 's005-n008' are not supported with X2GO as of now. (i.e. a note can be found in the setup guide in end of section 6.1)
        Just a quick clarification, any reason you are trying to access x2go in the mention nodes?

        Warm regards.
        BB