[torqueusers] Submitting a graphical job to Torque in batch mode

[Prakash Velayutham]

David Golden wrote:
>> Hi David,
>>
>> Xvfb solution worked perfectly. Thanks. I have a question, though.
>> According to the users, this same scilab thing was working fine before. 
>> Then I performed a complete OS upgrade from SuSE Pro 9.0 to 9.3 in 
>> October, 2005. I modified /etc/inittab to set the default init level to 
>> 3. Would any of these affect how scilab works in batch mode. It did not 
>> require a DISPLAY environment before, but started complaining about it 
>> recently.
>>     
>
> Not really a SuSE or a scilab user, I'm afraid.  Changing the 
> init level to 3 probably on worker nodes probably turned off a 
> local X server, of course,  but it seems pretty unlikely it 
> would have been usable by batch processes unless the X server 
> had also been configured to allow it (out of box on modern linux 
> distros, the [kxg]dm-managed X11 server typically wouldn't allow 
> unauthorised connections from clients, to the best of my knowledge), 
> and even then the batch job would have to happen to have a 
> correct DISPLAY env var, assuming scilab needs a valid display.
>
> Was scilab itself upgraded? (I have no idea if it's "in SuSE" -
> all I know is that it's non-free): could just be a bug in scilab, 
> failingto do whatever it's supposed to do when given -nwni, assuming
> what it's supposed to do when given -nwni includes not even
> trying to use any X display.
Hi David,

I'm back and so is the issue with scilab. Acutally, before I implemented 
the Xvfb method that you mentioned, I was not able to generate the 
output GIF file in batch mode even with interactive qsub (qsub -I). But 
with Xvfb, interactive generation is working. But the normal qsub 
(without -I) still does not work. What would the issue be? Using -V flag 
or not does not make any difference at all now. Error file is just empty 
and the output GIF file is of 0 size.

TIA,
Prakash