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
