Rocky9 Cluster upgrade

COSMA was reinstalled with Rocky9 in July 2024.

Helpful information should appear here as it becomes available.

In the meantime, please see the email text for further details.

Fixes

gnome-terminal

If gnome-terminal is refusing to start, please try dbus-launch gnome-terminal or alternatively, xfce4-terminal.

x2go

Disable the compositor to get rid of shadows when you move screens around. Find this at:

Applications > Settings > Window Manager Tweaks > Compositor

The screen lock can also be disabled in:

Applications > Settings > Xfce Screensaver > Lock Screen

AMD GPU

The AMD GPU nodes do not yet have ROCm installed - we are waiting for AMD to release a suitable installation package for Rocky 9.4 - currently they only support the new MI300 GPUs.