[FreeNX-kNX] FreeNX and Debian Etch - A Horror Tale

[Peter Daum]

jhonyl at netscape.net wrote:
> For me the "http://kern.nl/freenx/" worked.
[...]
> Peter Daum <gator_ml at yahoo.de> wrote:
>> I tried "http://kern.nl/freenx/" which was mentioned here. The session
>> always timed out. With the highest loglevel the only hint from the log
>> was that nxagent failed. Eventually I found that there is an uresolved
>> library dependency on libXcompext.so.2 (while the deb package claims to
>> depend on libxcompext1).

... shame on me! I am not so sure how this came about, but it guess, I must
have had a package named "libxcompext1" but with a different content floating
around from a previous attempt. I just checked again, and the package on kern.nl
does indeed contain "libXcompext.so.2". On another machine with a brand new Etch
installation, I tried it again (just adding the kern.nl to source.list); this
time it also worked out of the box (at least with nxclient 1.5.x)

(Actually, I had meanwhile managed to get the other packages
(packages.debianbase.de) working too, but not with the current nx client -
the backingstore patches didn't fix it ...)

Regards,
                          Peter Daum