[FreeNX-kNX] nxagent session gets lost, user gets new session even though one already exists

[Freerk Kalsbeek]

I've had a number of similar reports from users. In this case triggered by
not being able to start firefox since it is still running in the not
properly terminated session.
I think I'll be able to test a few things on my wife's Vista laptop. Hope
that this gives some hints.

One story I got from a user is that his session was lost after an automatic
reboot of Vista after installing updates.

Freerk


On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Mario Becroft <mb at gem.win.co.nz> wrote:

> Update:
>
> Can't repeat the problem on anything but one particular user's
> laptop. Probably has to do with the fact that it is running Windows
> Vista--all the other machines I have access to run Linux. Unfortunately
> I won't have access to this machine again for a week.
>
> I checked the state of things at the point where you have resumed the
> session and it is running fine but no longer listed in nxserver --list.
>
> The session file is moved into /usr/NX/var/db/closed at the time when
> you resumed the session. The only place where this can occur is in the
> session_close() function in nxserver. Also, the /tmp/.nX????.lock file
> is removed. So we can say that when you resume the session (apparently
> successfully), session_close is called.
>
> The only place where this is called is from server_nxnode_start_wait()
> (and when you use --force-terminate, which I have not used). I am not at
> all sure what this function does. Does it invoke the nxagent and then
> remain in this function for the duration of the nxagent process? I don't
> think that is what it does, but if not, then I can't see how
> session_close() can be getting called at the point where you resume the
> session. (Resuming does appear to involve server_nxnode_start_wait(),
> but a different part of it that never calls session_close(), if I am
> reading it right).
>
> Could someone please give me an overview of what this code does?
>
> --
> Mario Becroft <mb at gem.win.co.nz>
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