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From: Payal Chatterjee (payalchatterjee242_at_gmail.com)
Date: Tue Sep 29 2015 - 11:15:12 CDT

Hi
Thanks for the response, I was not providing the correct command I guess.
it should be ssh -X username_at_domainname, whereas I was only using ssh
username_at_domainname.

Best
Payal

On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 8:23 AM, John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:

> Hi,
> Do you have the DISPLAY environment variable set when you're logged
> into the remote cluster? From your description, it would seem that your
> colleagues are able to run it, so it is likely an issue with the DISPLAY
> environment variable not being set properly. Can you run 'xterm' or
> other programs like 'glxgears' successfully?
>
> Cheers,
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
> On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 03:32:25PM -0700, Payal Chatterjee wrote:
> > Dear Admin
> > I am a graduate student at the Western University of Health Sciences.
> I am
> > unable to call VMD from the cluster, from any system/laptop, even
> after
> > installing the X11 application! Everyone else in my lab can however,
> > easily do the same! Could you help me find out what is the problem?
> When I
> > type vmd on the terminal, after logging in into the cluster, all I
> see is
> > the following script, whereas no VMD window pops up:
> > id: cannot find name for group ID 1019
> > [payal_at_headnode ~]$ vmd
> > id: cannot find name for group ID 1019
> > Info) VMD for LINUXAMD64, version 1.9.1 (February 1, 2012)
> > Info) [1]http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/ A A A A A A A
> A A
> > A A A A
> > Info) Email questions and bug reports to [2]vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu A A A
> A
> > A A
> > Info) Please include this reference in published work using VMD: A A
> > Info) A A Humphrey, W., Dalke, A. and Schulten, K., `VMD - Visual A A
> > Info) A A Molecular Dynamics', J. Molec. Graphics 1996, 14.1, 33-38.
> > Info) -------------------------------------------------------------
> > Info) Multithreading available, 8 CPUs detected.
> > Info) Free system memory: 30592MB (95%)
> > Warning) Detected a mismatch between CUDA runtime and GPU driver
> > Warning) Check to make sure that GPU drivers are up to date.
> > Info) No CUDA accelerator devices available.
> > Info) Dynamically loaded 2 plugins in directory:
> > Info) /usr/local/lib/vmd/plugins/LINUXAMD64/molfile
> > /usr/local/lib/vmd/scripts/tcl8.5 /usr/local/lib/vmd/scripts
> > /usr/local/lib/lib /Projects/johns/tcl/8.5.6/lib_LINUXAMD64/lib
> > /usr/local/lib/vmd/scripts/vmd
> /usr/local/lib/vmd/plugins/LINUXAMD64/tcl
> > /usr/local/lib/vmd/plugins/noarch/tcl /home/lyna/vmd_diffusion
> > diffusion_coefficient_gui:diffusion_coefficient_tk {Analysis/Diffusion
> > Coefficient Tool}
> > Thanks
> > Payal
> > Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
> > Western University of Health Sciences
> > Pomona, CA
> >
> > References
> >
> > Visible links
> > 1. http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/
> > 2. mailto:vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
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