[FreeNX-kNX] FreeNX 0.6.0 Problem

Brent Davidson brent at texascountrytitle.com
Tue Jan 23 09:47:50 UTC 2007


I had a working installation of freenx 0.5.0 on Centos 4.4 with 2.1.0 NX 
backend.  I downloaded 0.6.0 and copied the files over the old fies and 
now I cannot start an nx session.  Log is below: 

NX> 203 NXSSH running with pid: 464
NX> 285 Enabling check on switch command
NX> 285 Enabling skip of SSH config files
NX> 285 Setting the preferred NX options
NX> 200 Connected to address: <removed> on port: <removed>
NX> 202 Authenticating user: nx
NX> 208 Using auth method: publickey
HELLO NXSERVER - Version 1.5.0-60 OS (GPL)
NX> 105 hello NXCLIENT - Version 1.5.0
NX> 134 Accepted protocol: 1.5.0
NX> 105 SET SHELL_MODE SHELL
NX> 105 SET AUTH_MODE PASSWORD
NX> 105 login
NX> 101 User: root
NX> 102 Password:
NX> 103 Welcome to: <removed> user: root
NX> 105 listsession --user="root" --status="suspended,running" 
--geometry="1280x800x32+render" --type="unix-gnome"
NX> 127 Sessions list of user 'root' for reconnect:

Display Type             Session ID                       Options  Depth 
Screen         Status      Session Name
------- ---------------- -------------------------------- -------- ----- 
-------------- ----------- ------------------------------


NX> 148 Server capacity: not reached for user: root
NX> 105 startsession  --link="modem" --backingstore="1" --nodelay="1" 
--encryption="1" --cache="32M" --images="128M" --media="0" 
--session="Test 1" --type="unix-gnome" --geometry="1280x766" 
--kbtype="pc102/en_US" --screeninfo="1280x766x32+render"

NX> 1000 NXNODE - Version 1.5.0-60 OS (GPL)
NX> 700 Session id: <removed>-1001-199CC9E7700F5FB45977C54D0029F8D7
NX> 705 Session display: 1001
NX> 703 Session type: unix-gnome
NX> 701 Proxy cookie: bafa8267e1340c5b74de9f3e8f4ef3df
NX> 702 Proxy IP: 127.0.0.1
NX> 706 Agent cookie: bafa8267e1340c5b74de9f3e8f4ef3df
NX> 704 Session cache: unix-gnome
NX> 707 SSL tunneling: 1
NX> 105 NX> 596 Session startup failed.
NX> 1004 Error: NX Agent exited with exit status 1.
NX> 1006 Session status: closed
/usr/bin/nxserver: line 1190:  9475 Terminated              sleep 
$AGENT_STARTUP_TIMEOUT
Can't open 
/var/lib/nxserver/db/running/sessionId{199CC9E7700F5FB45977C54D0029F8D7}: 
No such file or directory.
mv: cannot stat 
`/var/lib/nxserver/db/running/sessionId{199CC9E7700F5FB45977C54D0029F8D7}': 
No such file or directory
Killed by signal 15.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Brent Davidson


Fabian Franz wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> yes, there is a new release.
>
> And yes it has been ages since a last release and it might even not be as stable and tested as one would expect after such a long time.
>
> Anyway it works for me with 2.1.0 backend and 2.1.0 client on Linux and Windows.
>
> Here is the ChangeLog including those of 0.5.0 and 0.4.5, because those were never properly released even though tagged correctly:
>
> 23.01.2007 FreeNX 0.6.0 "Juliana birthday edition"
>         * Opened the 0.6.0 branch.
>         * Added nxnode slave mode.
>         * General code cleanup.
>                 * Huge cleanup of nxnode.
>         * Removed "no-x11-forwarding" from keys to allow client to use the
>           faster interactive sessions.
>         * Fixed nxsetup automatic testing of sessions and cleared up
>           explanations.
>         * Added support for NX 2.0.0 style nxclient dialogs.
>         * Support for NX 2.0.0 backend in nxloadconfig.
>         * Fixed cups printing (added username and password).
>         * Fixed one more stray tail process.
>         * Added example script for "load" based loadbalancing.
>         * Fixed spaces in parameters for NX Client 2.0.0.
>           (ssycplkbocve at spammotel.com)
>         * Added version 2.1.0 support.
>         * Fixed LD_LIBRARY_PRELOAD default path in nxloadconfig.
>         * Fixed nxclient to work with 2.1.0 backend.
>         * Added autodetection of backend.
>
> 01.07.2006 FreeNX 0.5.0 "UKUUG 2006 Edition"
>         * Opened the 0.5.0 branch.
>         * Added load balancing.
>         * Completely removed support for 1.4.0 backend.
>         * Rootless mode is now the default.
>         * Reworked nxnode / suspend on connection failure should work now.
>         * Added support for "Running" sessions.
>         * Fixed --send command. (Emmanuel Blindauer <freenx at mooby.net>)
>         * Fixed resume with nxclient >=1.5.0-106 for Windows.
>         * Fixed rootless sessions with Windows nxclient.
>         * Fixed keyboard issues by enabling the keybd channel.
>         * Fixed one more stray tail process and being able to
>           cleanup after a hopelessly failed reconnection. (i.e. agent died)
>         * Fixed detection of xauth / netcat. Added option to disable extra
>           checks.
>         * Fixed --terminate / --suspend when hostname has a '-' in it.
>           (Emmanuel Blindauer <freenx at mooby.net>)
>         * ESD_NO_SPAWN is always set when ESPEAKER is set.
>           ("Felipe Alfaro Solana" <felipe.alfaro at gmail.com>)
>         * Added perl replacement for 'rev' function on Sun OS 5.10.
>         * Fixed NODE_AUTOSTART to be unable to block sessions.
>         * Fixed stale sessions introduced by the new session handling model.
>         * Added usage of TCP NODELAY option.
>         * Fixed loadbalancing IP issues.
>         * Added --force-terminate to remove session info.
>           Fixed issue with suspend/terminate commands.
>         * Added correct errorcode 596 instead of 504.
>         * Implemented "round-robin" and "load" loadbalancing algorithms.
>           Cleaned up node.conf keys.
>         * Fixed help for --restart.
>         * Fixed session_running function, which fixes all remaining stale
>           session problems.
>         * Removed termination of nxagent in case of rootless mode.
>           (Fixes kontact without --nofork)
>         * Last minute fixes for new functions using rev.
>         * Added experimental last minute support for NX 2.0.0 backend.
>           (set ENABLE_2_0_0_BACKEND=1)
>
> XX.XX.2006 FreeNX 0.4.5 "aKademy Edition"
>         * Made nxsetup more user-friendly and hopefully finally failsafe.
>         * Added --agent to nxnode/nxserver to allow easier debugging.
>         * Added addgroup/groupadd to nxsetup
>         * Added --ignore-errors support on nxsetup/nxloadconfig
>         * Added check for expect.
>
> It happens to be my sisters 14th birthday today, so the release is named after her. But this is just a coincidence.
>
> So: "Happy Birthday, Juliana!"
>
> Now you might ask why there was such a long developer "down-time" and why now this sudden release.
>
> For this sudden release you can thank the Fachschaft Informatik of University Karlsruhe, where I am a member, because they want to use it.
>
> Why the long developer "down-time"?
>
> Lets be honest here:
>
> - I had some huge personal issues, which I had to solve first.
> - I had a motivation gap.
> - I had quite big monetary problems in the second half of 2006. Right after 0.5.0 was announced, but not released (because I forgot to write a release announcement ... :-( )
>
> At the moment money is quite okay again, but if you want to donate something to me as a developer / person, feel free to do so via Paypal: paypal at fabian-franz.de.
>
> I cannot and will not promise that development will start moving again, but if time permits it might very well be.
>
> So I have got a question for you after you have tested the new 0.6.0:
>
> What is the biggest issue you currently have with only FreeNX?
>
> You can get the release from:
>
> http://prdownload.berlios.de/freenx/freenx-0.6.0.tar.gz
>
> Last but not least I want to thank all of those members that are still here on this list and are still using FreeNX despite all those nasty release issues.
>
> cu
>
> Fabian
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