[MPICH] Tracing the mpich library with gdb and xtern

Krishna Chaitanya kris.c1986 at gmail.com
Thu Jan 3 13:22:52 CST 2008


Hi,
     I am using FC6 on one machine and FC4 on another. I couldnt find the
file "gdm.conf". Just out of curiosity,could you please tell me where I
could possibly locate the scripts you have mentioned?

Thanks,
Krishna Chaitanya


On 1/3/08, Ashley Pittman <apittman at concurrent-thinking.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 18:58 +0530, Krishna Chaitanya wrote:
> > @Ashley :
> > >It sounds like you set DISPLAY before sshing to the remote machine,
> > you
> > should run ssh without the -x flag (although it won't do any harm) and
> > set DISPLAY on the machine where you issue the mpirun.
> >       Setting the DISPLAY to localhost:0.0 on the  local node and not
> > altering the DISPLAY on the remote node,  fails to open the window on
> > either machine.
> >
> >       Please help me get past this
>
> Setting it to localhost will try and make the window appear on the
> machine which is running the xterm, you want to set it to your ip
> address or hostname.
>
> Furthermore running X over the network like this (as opposed to ssh
> forwarding) is insecure so many distributions set the "-nolisten tcp"
> option when starting the X server, you may have to edit the startup
> script of X to remove this, on my system this means
> editing /etc/gdm/gdm.conf and commenting out the line "DisallowTCP=true"
>
> Ashley,
>
>


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