Re: [Condor-users] USE_VISIBLE_DESKTOP and CREDD issues

["Jones, Torrin A \(US SSA\)" <torrin.jones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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I imagine that excel needs a gui to run, even though it's a macro.  That's probably why you need USE_VISIBLE_DESKTOP.

 

I'm not sure about the credd problem.  When you submit a job directly to a winxp client what does "condor_q -analyze" say?

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From: condor-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:condor-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of kvandenberg@xxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 19:23
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Subject: [Condor-users] USE_VISIBLE_DESKTOP and CREDD issues

i am using condor 6.9.3 with a win2k3 server as master with an xp slave.  when jobs get allocated to the slave they exit with the message below unless i have USE_VISIBLE_DESKTOP enabled on the slave.  if USE_VISIBLE_DESKTOP is enabled the job runs successfully.  i do not have condor_credd daemon running in this scenario.  the jobs are excel spreadsheets which autorun a macro and exit and saving results.

when trying to run credd daemon and use run as owner on the w2k3 server, jobs never get allocated to the xp client.  all jobs get allocated to the w2k3 server and run successfully.  i tried dozens of confi variations with HOSTALLOW***, included the necessary vars CREDD_HOST, STARTER_ALLOW_RUNAS_OWNER, SEC_CLIENT_AUTHENTICATION_METHODS, CREDD_CACHE_LOCALLY, done all the condor_store_cred variations, etc,etc.

so the 2 problems/questions are;

1. why does USE_VISIBLE_DESKTOP have to be enabled for my jobs to run successfully on the xp slave?

2. why won't the xp slave get jobs allocated when i try to run with credd?

any ideas?  thanks.



*********************************job log
005 (260.005.000) 07/11 22:00:57 Job terminated.
        (1) Normal termination (return value -1073741502)
                Usr 0 00:00:00, Sys 0 00:00:00  -  Run Remote Usage
                Usr 0 00:00:00, Sys 0 00:00:00  -  Run Local Usage
                Usr 0 00:00:00, Sys 0 00:00:00  -  Total Remote Usage
                Usr 0 00:00:00, Sys 0 00:00:00  -  Total Local Usage
        0  -  Run Bytes Sent By Job
        89463072  -  Run Bytes Received By Job
        0  -  Total Bytes Sent By Job
        89463072  -  Total Bytes Received By Job



********************************my submit file is as follows;

Executable                     = run-excel.bat
Universe                       = vanilla
#run_as_owner                = true
Requirements                   = OpSys == "WINNT51" || OpSys =="WINNT52"
should_transfer_files         = YES
when_to_transfer_output = ON_EXIT
#noop_job_exit_code         = 0
transfer_input_files         = n:\kva\condor\condor-test2.xlsm, n:\kva\condor\condor-test3.xlsm, n:\kva\condor\condor-test4.xlsm, n:\kva\condor\condor-test5.xlsm, n:\kva\condor\condor-test6.xlsm,

n:\kva\condor\condor-test7.xlsm
log                        = job.log                
Output                  = out.log
Error                   = error.log
getenv                  = True

Arguments                      = condor-test2.xlsm
Queue

Arguments                      = condor-test3.xlsm
Queue

Arguments                      = condor-test4.xlsm
Queue

Arguments                      = condor-test5.xlsm
Queue

priority                = 5
Arguments                      = condor-test6.xlsm
Queue

priority                = 6
Arguments                      = condor-test7.xlsm
Queue

Kurt Vandenberg
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"Ian Chesal" <ICHESAL@xxxxxxxxxx>
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05/27/2007 09:42 PM

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Subject	Re: [Condor-users] USE_VISIBLE_DESKTOP stops working after a while

> > Tony: good idea. This could be close to the problem. We
> don't enable
> > Windows Terminal Services on these machines. But we do keep them
> > logged in as a domain user that's been given Administrator
> access to
> > the box and check on their GUI sessions with VNC. I'll see
> if logging
> > the machine out has any effect (although then there wouldn't be a
> > visible desktop to use which might not work).
>
> VNC (and its clones and commercial ports) use a very similar
> hooking mechanism as remote desktop to the extent that use on
> one while the other is active tends to kill one or both of
> them. I would treat your VNC client as the most likely candidate.

I'll test with VNC disabled and see if that solves the problem then.

Thanks Matt and Tony!

- Ian


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