# Unable to get interactive desktops running

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**Created:** [October 3, 2023, 9:08pm UTC](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/unable-to-get-interactive-desktops-running/2992 "2023-10-03T21:08:47Z")\
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Very cool!

OK - this is going to take a bit of debugging. You can use chrome to open your developer tools in a new tab.

You can check this topic on how to debug.

> [@Xfce desktop does not work in OOD 3.0](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/xfce-desktop-does-not-work-in-ood-3-0/2637/3):
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> Thank you for your reply. Were the compute nodes also upgraded to Rocky 8 or was it just the webnode? I am using the Singularity container and its OS is Rocky 8.7. Also, the host running the Singularity container has the same OS. Could you supply the node\_uri and rnod\_uri from the ood\_portal.yml as well? node\_uri: '/node' rnode\_uri: '/rnode' And lastly, could you open this in Chrome, open a new tab with the developer tools open and see if there are errors in the console and also check …

As a first guess I’d ask what your `host_regex` is and if you’re suing Basic authentication & Safari (Safari won’t open web sockets over basic authentication).

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