[FreeNX-kNX] NX crashing X in Fedora 8

[Fabian Franz]

> Fedora8-i386 . Can't start X .

First: I am not responsible! Yahooo ;-) (because this is the commercial version)

> This problem happens after two installs of Fedora 8 and NX, It crashes 
> Fedora 8 and I have to do a fresh install.
> NX is changing something that affects X running in Fedora.
> 
> NXserver-3.0.0-74.i386.rpm  NXclient-3.0.0-84.i386.rpm
> NXnode-3.0.0-88.i386.rpm
> 
> I can install NXclient and reboot and X will come up.
> If I install NXnode and reboot then that is when X won't start (crashes)
> 
> No EE messages in /var/log/Xorg.0.log . So this is not a problem in 
> xorg.conf
> I log in as root and startx, and X goes to a gray screen with a X (mouse 
> pointer) in center of screen and stops there, if I ctrl-alt-backspace,
> it gives me the below error messages:
> 
> giving up.
> Xinit: no such file or directory (errno 2): Unable to connect to X server.
> Xinit: no such process (errno3): Server error

I have a wild guess idea:

Could you check which permissions /tmp/.X11-unix/ has. Is it 1755?

Because:

We had massive problems with FreeNX, because /tmp/.X11-unix was not there.

_Perhaps_ the new nxnode added a startup script, which creates this directory, but with wrong permissions. This way the XServer or startx won't create it (its already there), but would also not create its unix domain socket. (wrong permissions)

As XServers are usually setup to only use unix domain sockets, the startup will fail with exact this error:

"No such file or directory".

cu

Fabian