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Is there some secret way to reset rocky 9 back to “just installed”

Did a idiot thing by running Install_burn_headless but I forgot that it has adisplay dongle and now burn wont render anymore and nomachine is freaking out and everything is broken.

It comes with a warning that i skipped over so now reinstall time (boo)

its my own fault so yay

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@finn - not immediately.
you can try:

ssh to the machine.

sudo /usr/local/bin/rmsoft
(let me look for the headless option)

the headless option is -g
so:

sudo /usr/local/bin/rmsoft -g

then reinstall the DKU
then reinstall flame
then reinstall your remote control software.

this is about 12 - 20 minutes.

you could even try:

sudo /usr/local/bin/rmsoft -fag

or

sudo /usr/local/bin/rmsoft -fagcv

Usage: rmsoft [option]

Options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -a, --all             Remove all Autodesk software
  -r RESUMES, --resumes=RESUMES
                        Remove Autodesk software associated with either the
                        resume file or the regexp string specified
  -k KEEP, --keep=KEEP  Remove All Autodesk software except the one associated
                        with either the resume file or the regexp string
                        specified
  -f, --delete-folders  Remove all autodesk FOLDER
  -c, --no-confirm      No confirmation
  -g, --no-gui          trigger interactive shell mode
  -v, --verbose         verbose mode
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sweet trying that right now!

4

Delete the Xorg

5

yea… tried that, down the rabbit hole, i uninstalled it all, recreated a new xorg, nomachine now just shows me “oh no! something something” broke, i did a bunch of random stuff now with xorg, reinstalling nvidia drivers, restarting gdm, but its just not working at all… i think install_headless really does some crazy damage

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It installs VirtualGL, which would definitely make things fucky. You could try dnf remove VirtualGL

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yea there was more weird configs with virtualGL, removing it using the nomachine app actually worked!

i am so close now the only thing I still get is

Users reported that: When launching Burn jobs to a Burn node that has no desktop session started, the render fails, showing the error:

Fatal: This application failed to start because no Qt platform plugin could be initialized. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.

so its not technically headless, as it does have a display connected (dummy hdmi dongle) if I login to nomachine i get echo $DISPLAY = 1 and my flame config also has that, so that works… just BURN wants to not start

I think I am giving up and reinstalling the system tomorrow, man this is so weird, everything else runs, houdini e.t.c

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i really dont know how this is supposed to work with a non headless workstation thats used for both burn as well as regular remote sessions. I dont even want to run flame interactive but other things.

i can get it to launch a session as display:0 but that doesnt seem to solve burns issue either, I guess burn runs as root? should I just auto-login root as tty2 on display0?

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I don’t know about NoMachine, but when in Teradici mode, Burn does not run. But when using NiceDCV, yes, Burn works. So I suggest you test that, and make sure to use the latest 2024 version of DCV. I tested a pre-release fix this morning, not sure when it will make it to the general public.

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uninstalled nomachine, did a bunch of reboots, made sure root does autologin to root and some other shenanigans and behold… it works :slight_smile: