[FreeNX-kNX] HELP: Authentication Completed ... Negotiating link parameters ... Connection timeout

[Fabian Franz]

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Am Mittwoch, 23. Februar 2005 21:07 schrieb Jonathan Chen:
> Okay, I may have found the possible problem that is causing all users not
> able to get on the server.  I simply rebooted the server to regain the NFS
> mounted drive access(tried umount and it failed).  I hope that was problem
> since I kept seeing

Yes, that was a critical problem.

>
>  /users/jona/.nx/C-hostname-1000-E5BC8F11E71604D83E4874396500DFEA/session:
>  Stale NFS file handle
>  tail: no files remaining

If the server can't read the session infos it can't know when nxagent is 
stopped / suspended whatever.

>
> Now my question is, how should I resolve the problem if the cause of my NX
> login is the NFS server?  It's strange that NX did not work while I am
> still able to log in via regular ssh and see all the files in my home dir.

Well you might be able to see them, but are you also able to access them all?
 
> I would like a solution where users are able to log in even if there is an
> NFS issue where the users home dir is located.

Ok, but thats not easy to do.

Please open up a FR, that you would like to have a possibility to store 
session infos in /tmp/.nx/<username>/.

I think this would solve your problems.

cu

Fabian

PS: Please upgrade to 0.2.8 to resolve the security issues in 0.2.7.
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