[FreeNX-kNX] /tmp/.X11-unix problems with nx-3.0.0 and freenx-0.7.1

Fabian Franz FabianFranz at gmx.de
Sat Nov 3 15:47:42 UTC 2007


> This is indeed an issue that needs to be resolved.  I install all my
> servers with runlevel 3.  When I upgraded NX from 2.x to 3.0, NX became
> almost useless to me because not only it took many minutes just to
> initiate a session but, in KDE, some things were broken.  For example,
> konsole, when started from a Desktop icon, produced an error and I could
> not refresh the Desktop while it was running.  gnome seemed to be less
> problematic compared to KDE.

Yeah, I guess the problem is that I removed the unix:<xx> from the display variable, so before it was forced to use unix style. Now it can choose whatever it wants.

> I had been scratching my head until I eventually saw what was described by
> Johnny Hughes in his post.  Manually creating the /tmp/.X11-unix directory
> was the solution and I have since added this to the boot process.
> 
> It would be great if someone comes up with a fix for this problem that may
> potentially cause a headache to other users.

Other than adding it to the boot process via a init.d style script I cannot do either ...

cu

Fabian



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