Comment (by Roland Haas):

I am trying this myself now.

I do see that it does not update itself for long running operations like the ET compile where the state is not updated ie (*) sticks around.Maybe this is some sort of webserver timeout. It is also possible that the link stage uses more memory than allowed (the containers are limited to 8GB and at least on clusters [comet, specifically] I have seen Cactus use that much to compile).

What browser/OS were you using? Mine is Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:64.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/64.0

Initially "Hello, World!" did not run properly (skeleton simulation directory was created but no output files), deleting it and trying again did work.

I do see the (fatal) "The value of the MCA parameter "plm_rsh_agent" was set to a path that could not be found: plm_rsh_agent: ssh : rsh Please either unset the parameter, or check that the path is correct" error. Which is odd given that this used to work before.

Other things of note:

• the tutorial builds BLAS which could be avoided by installing the proper Ubuntu package in the docker container
• the tutorial builds LAPACK which could be avoided by installing the proper Ubuntu package in the docker container
• it may be good to build a smaller configuration for "Hello, World!" which would finish building more quickly
• similarly it may be useful to build only a reduced thornlist for the static_tov example. There are even tools in the ET that should determine the minimal list required. They may even still work (or work again given that there was a recent re-implementation).
• the sed command tends (or at least tended) to confuse people. Possibly replace this with a %write cell using the full parfile content
• the generated plot is missing x and y labels, and a legend. If one presented such a plot in an assignment, one would lose marks.

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Ticket URL: https://bitbucket.org/einsteintoolkit/tickets/issues/2234/trouble-in-the-tutorial-server