[FreeNX-kNX] [Vserver] Re: Re: NXServer inside of VServer?

[Herbert Poetzl]

On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 01:48:18PM +0200, Martin Honermeyer wrote:
> Hello Bodo,
> 
> Bodo Eggert wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 25 Jun 2005, Martin Honermeyer wrote:
> > 
> >> * Deleted everything from /tmp.
> >> * Tried to login again => same problem, window closes after a few seconds
> >> * looked at the user's .xsession-errors file:
> >> _IceTransmkdir: ERROR: Owner of /tmp/.ICE-unix must be set to root
> > [...]
> > 
> >> Note: I have to re-run those two commands every time I reboot the
> >> VServer. It seems like starting an X-Server from within FreeNX doesn't
> >> set up those permissions in /tmp correctly. Maybe that's because I don't
> >> have something like KDM run beforehand.
> > 
> > It's a common error, caused by KDE. It expects the boot scripts to create
> > this dir, and if there is none, it will mess it up.
> > 
> > The [KX]DM startup script should create that directory, check if it's
> > owned by root and chmod it to 1777. If it isn't, remove or rename the
> > directory and retry a limited number of times.
> > 
> 
> As FreeNX doesn't need a display manager _at all_, why should I XDM? I think
> the easiest solution is two put the lines
> 
> # fix X11/KDE problems
> rm -fR /tmp/.ICE-unix /tmp/.X11-unix
> mkdir /tmp/.ICE-unix /tmp/.X11-unix
> chmod 1777 /tmp/.ICE-unix /tmp/.X11-unix
> 
> into /etc/conf.d/local.start (Gentoo VServer), so it is run on every boot.
> That would fix it for me.
> 
> 
> I've got an additional problem resulting from the inability to access pty's
> from the guest. I'd like to start xterm / konsole in my kde sessions. This
> isn't possible ("not enough ptys"). Is it possible to get this running?
> Using secure mounts maybe?

hmm, with a proper setup this should not happen ...
please provide some logs (maybe an strace of the xterm start?)
and check in the kernel log for suspicious messages ...

best,
Herbert

> Martin
> 
> 
> 
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