<br><tt><font size=2>freenx-knx-bounces@kde.org wrote on 14/05/2014 00:36:56:<br>
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> Hi,<br>
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> So bizarrely I can now start a gnome2 (i.e. MATE) session on this
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> troublesome machine, but not lubuntu!?!?!<br>
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> I am still convinced this is either something related to the user
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> account, or potentially a permissions problem on /tmp/.X11-unix</font></tt>
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<br><tt><font size=2>maybe</font></tt>
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> I have read that the freenx-script needs to be hacked to replace the<br>
> line which creates /tmp/.X11-unix with 1755 permissions to a more<br>
> permissive 1777<br>
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<br><tt><font size=2>Did you try chmod-ing it ???</font></tt>
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<br><tt><font size=2>/tmp/.X11-unix is usually there anyway,</font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2> created
as part of X or kde etc</font></tt>
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<br><tt><font size=2>It's rare that FreeNX needs to create it</font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2>BUT</font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2>if your distro now uses somewhere else for local X
sessions,</font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2>or</font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2>it gets removed for some reason</font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2>then</font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2>you will run into that bug.</font></tt>
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<br><tt><font size=2>nxagent isa modded XFree86 . . . </font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2>. . . everyone else uses Xorg, which is moving on
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> However I’ve not seen anything that suggests this folder should be
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> owned by nx…..let me explain.<br>
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<br><tt><font size=2>It shouldn't be, but that directory should be searchable
by everyone . . </font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2>i.e. the x bits should be set</font></tt>
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> If I change the ownership of /tmp/.X11-unix to be user=nx, <br>
> group=root I can then run:<br>
> /usr/lib/nx/nxnode —agent<br>
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<br><tt><font size=2>Don't do that</font></tt>
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> and bingo, a blank screen appears on the client.<br>
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> If I change the ownership back to root, were back to nxnode —agent
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> just saying that it: Cannot establish any listening sockets etc<br>
> and nothing appears on the client.<br>
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> This is reproducible across both of my ubuntu 13.10 machines, <br>
> perhaps arguing against it being a user account problem.<br>
> <br>
> So is there anything that I am missing that might account for why
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> Gnome(ish) works, but lubuntu doesn’t?<br>
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<br><tt><font size=2>Does lubuntu work locally i.e without NX ( that will
be Xorg )</font></tt>
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> Cheers, Jon<br>
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<br><tt><font size=2>Try chmod-ing</font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2> /tmp/.X11-unix</font></tt>
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