xp65 documentation: suggested addition for running on ARE VDI

[MitchellBlack]

Description

I have encountered some issues using xp65 analysis3 on ARE VDI.
This was caused by the conda env trying to run a container within the VDI container.

See https://forum.access-hive.org.au/t/xp65-on-are-vdi-unable-to-call-on-opt-conda/4442/4

Why

It would be helpful to update the xp65 help document to include the solution mentioned by Scott in the above link.

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[ScottWales]

Alternatively the container run script could be adjusted to print an error messaage if a different container to what was expected is currently loaded (e.g. by checking if /singularity.d/ exists)

[access-hive-bot]

This issue has been mentioned on ACCESS Hive Community Forum. There might be relevant details there:

https://forum.access-hive.org.au/t/xp65-on-are-vdi-unable-to-call-on-opt-conda/4442/6

[paigem]

Thanks for this suggestion @MitchellBlack and for the quick solution @ScottWales!

Could I confirm that I've understood what is being suggested here?

• It sounds like we should make the following update to the instructions on the conda/analysis3 page on the ACCESS-Hive Docs: Type ssh localhost from the command line within your VDI session to exit the VDI container before loading the python environment.

@ScottWales You suggested an alternative to the above:

Alternatively the container run script could be adjusted to print an error messaage if a different container to what was expected is currently loaded (e.g. by checking if /singularity.d/ exists)

Could you provide a bit more detail? It's not immediately clear to me how printing an error message would help a user solve this issue.

[ScottWales]

Printing a message brings the documentation to the user, rather than relying on them to go and read the documentation, e.g.

$ python foo.py
ERROR: Unable to run `python` as you are already inside a different container. Try exiting the existing container by running `ssh localhost` or see https://.... for more details

[heidinett]

Closed as not related to Hive Docs - more relevant to user community as a Forum post.

[atteggiani]

We should add the solution in this post to the ARE-VDI paragraph.