The above command will reserve one node in the debug partition and launch an interactive shell job. The --pty option executes task zero in pseudo terminal mode and implicitly sets --unbuffered and --error and --output to /dev/null for all tasks except task zero, which may cause those tasks to exit immediately.
Displaying X Windows from Interactive Jobs
Slurm has an "x11" flag (--x11) that enables X11 forwarding over SSH, and displays application windows from a compute node back to the local display. Please make sure to enable graphics when connecting to a Chinook login node. The flag can be used like so: