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Ray
Asked: 2014-02-02 07:35:07 +0800 CST

Sun Grid Engine's qmon -- "Cannot convert string..."

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I recently tried to run qmon (from Sun Grid Engine job queueing system) and when I do, I get a bunch of warnings that look like this:

Warning: Cannot convert string "intro" to type Pixmap
Warning: Cannot convert string "toolbar_job" to type Pixmap
Warning: Cannot convert string "toolbar_queue" to type Pixmap
Warning: Cannot convert string "toolbar_submit" to type Pixmap
Warning: Cannot convert string "toolbar_cplx" to type Pixmap
Warning: Cannot convert string "toolbar_host" to type Pixmap
Warning: Cannot convert string "toolbar_cluster" to type Pixmap
Warning: Cannot convert string "toolbar_sched" to type Pixmap
Warning: Cannot convert string "toolbar_calendar" to type Pixmap
...

And then, when the GUI finally appears, all of the icons are replaced by a small dot. I guess for some reason, the icons cannot be shown. I tried to look for them in:

/usr/share/gridengine/pixmaps/

and indeed, the *.xpm files are there.

About half a year or so ago, it worked fine. I guess something happened to my system during an upgrade or update that changed things. Any ideas on what I should be looking for? Any log files that could help me?

Thank you!

Ray

PS: On Ubuntu 13.10.

13.10

2 Answers

  1. You can also workaround the problem temporarily by creating few symbolic links in your home directory like this:

    mkdir -p $HOME/icons/Qmon
cd $HOME/icons/Qmon
for f in /usr/share/gridengine/pixmaps/*; do ln -sf $f $(basename ${f%.xpm}); done
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  2. Best Answer

    I've overcome my problem and would like to share it with others.

    Indeed, Bruno gave me some hints...that maybe I should be looking at other versions.

    I had SGE installed via packages on a 12.04 system and a 13.10 system. The 12.04 system is fine, but the 13.10 system gave me the problems described above.

    My "solution" was to depart from the Ubuntu packages and install the Son of Grid Engine's latest version (8.1.6). I can confirm that the above problem with qmon no longer exists for me.

    Ray

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