[FreeNX-kNX] Desktop applets all crash on startup

[Simon Guerrero]

I have identified over the weekend that a large number of application
crashes I was having, as well as my problem with lack of keyboard,
turned out to be due to NX.

The current version of the free NX at nomachine.com drops libraries into
the system library path which clash with existing libraries from the
distribution (in my case, Debian "lenny"). For example, libpng.so is at
a different version for NX, but it creates symlinks in /usr/NX/lib which
end up being used by kde apps, which segfault.

Removing nxserver, nxnode and nxclient gets rid of the problem, but kind
of defeats the object of putting nx on - to get to the machine remotely.

Can anyone suggest a way of getting around this? I spent yesterday
trying to build a working NX system but it seems that getting a
combination of freenx sources and the correct OSS NX components from
NoMachine on my distribution, at least, is beyond me.

Simon

-----Original Message-----
From: Jack Tanner [mailto:ihok at hotmail.com] 
Sent: 13 January 2008 18:34
To: freenx-knx at kde.org
Subject: Re: [FreeNX-kNX] Desktop applets all crash on startup

Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
> 
> Whenever I use nx to log in to my Fedora 8 server, ALL of the panel
gnome
> applets seem to crash on login.  This results in a a stack of dialog
> error messages of form:
> 
> "The panel encountered a problem while loading
"OAFIID:GNOME_ShowDesktopApplet
> Do you want to delete the applet from your configuration"

I've seen this as well. I don't know the root cause, but it doesn't 
happen if I a) don't log in to the same box at the same time both 
locally and via NX; b) make sure all processes of a previous login are 
killed before logging in again.

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