[foxtrot] Running on Marvin

[Matej Pfajfar]

> Two problems with using the super speedy marvin to run our stuff
> 1)
> You cannot run the GUIs when on pwf.  The error is:

Are you logged in through rlogin, ssh or exceed?
Tell me what exactly you do to run the GUI.
We should be able to sort this one out.

> 
> 
> This is probably a linux/x graphics related prob.
> 
> 2) If marvin runs a server you cannot log in a client from thor.  It
> starts making the connection but won't actually (after 20mins of
> waiting) make the connection and start getting workunits.
> 
> The reversal of this did work once, but usually gives something along the
> lines of:
> Error in communication with server: java.rmi.ConnectException: Connection
> refused to host: 131.111.8.39; nested exception is: 
>         java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused

Al, Mike?

Mat

Matej Pfajfar
St John's College, University of Cambridge, UK

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