[FreeNX-kNX] blank screen

Fabian Franz FabianFranz at gmx.de
Mon Mar 5 02:53:49 UTC 2007


> > I do the following in nxnode:
> > 
> > # for example
> > display=1000
> > cookie=$(mcookie)
> > COMMAND_XAUTH=$(which xauth)
> > USER_FAKE_HOME=$HOME
> > sessid=<some session id>
> > 
> > $COMMAND_XAUTH >/dev/null 2>&1 <<EOF
> > add localhost:$display MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 $cookie
> > add unix:$display MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 $cookie
> > exit
> > EOF
> > 
> > $COMMAND_XAUTH -f "$USER_FAKE_HOME/.nx/C-$sess_id/authority" >/dev/null
> 2>&1 <<EOF
> > add localhost:$display MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 $cookie
> > add unix:$display MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 $cookie
> > exit
> > EOF
> > 
> > I can't see anything wrong about that ...
> > 
> > But you might want to remove the >/dev/null 2>&1 from nxnode to see if
> xauth gives some error message.
> 
> It doesn't. I see somthing else that looks wrong, using "ps e" I see
> that nxagent has
> 
> XAUTHORITY=/home/athimm/.nx/.../authority
> 
> set, which looks OK, but has
> 
> DISPLAY=nx/nx,options=/home/athimm/.nx/.../options:1000

This is perfectly okay ...

Please try to debug via the instructions given above.

It might also help to just do:

xauth source ~/.nx/C-.../authority

cu

Fabian



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