Sun Grid Engine's qmon -- "Cannot convert string..."

Solution 1:

You can also workaround the problem temporarily by creating few symbolic links in your home directory like this:

mkdir -p $HOME/icons/Qmon
cd $HOME/icons/Qmon
for f in /usr/share/gridengine/pixmaps/*; do ln -sf $f $(basename ${f%.xpm}); done

Solution 2:

I've overcome my problem and would like to share it with others.

Indeed, Bruno gave me some hints...that maybe I should be looking at other versions.

I had SGE installed via packages on a 12.04 system and a 13.10 system. The 12.04 system is fine, but the 13.10 system gave me the problems described above.

My "solution" was to depart from the Ubuntu packages and install the Son of Grid Engine's latest version (8.1.6). I can confirm that the above problem with qmon no longer exists for me.

Ray