[Sciserver-users] SciServer new user questions

[Johannes Buchner]

On 19.10.20 14:58, Tom Dwelly wrote:
> Hi Jonas
> 
> I have a few questions about using the MPE SciServer system. I am
> sending this to the list in case any of these issues have been
> encountered by other users.
> Apologies for where I have got the SciServer nomenclature wrong.
> 
> 
> 1) Is it possible to ssh from an external machine into a container
> session running on SciServer compute?

This would make SciServer many times more attractive to use for me.

Cheers,
       Johannes

> 2) Is there any way for a user to set up persistent settings (e.g.
> .bashrc file, ssh settings etc) that are sourced/used by new terminal
> sessions within any compute container?
> 
> 3) Is it possible for users to install standard linux packages (e.g. via
> apt) within a container session?
> 
> 3a) if not, please can you add emacs to the default list of installed
> packages in the standard SciServer compute image?
> 
> 
> 4) Any idea why 'git clone' operations like the following are failing
> within a compute container?
> 
> idies at b1715cc0395c:~/workspace/Storage/TomDwelly/persistent/gitwork$ git
> clone https://gitlab.mpcdf.mpg.de/tdwelly/helper-scripts.git
> Cloning into 'helper-scripts'...
> Username for 'https://gitlab.mpcdf.mpg.de': tdwelly
> Password for 'https://tdwelly@gitlab.mpcdf.mpg.de':
> remote: Enumerating objects: 347, done.
> remote: Counting objects: 100% (347/347), done.
> remote: Compressing objects: 100% (271/271), done.
> fatal: write error: Bad file descriptor
> fatal: index-pack failed
> 
> I have seen similar results when attempting to clone another of my other
> git repos. Various StackExchange suggestions to turn off compression and
> increase the windowMemory have not helped.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Tom
> 
> 


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Dr. Johannes Buchner
Postdoctoral Researcher
Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics
Garching, Germany
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