[FreeNX-kNX] fedora 9: could not open default font fixed

[sean darcy]

sean darcy wrote:
> using nxclient-3.2.0-9 to connect to nx-3.2.0-27.fc9.i386
> freenx-0.7.2-0.fc9.i386.
> 
> cat session
> 
> NXAGENT - Version 3.2.0
> 
> Copyright (C) 2001, 2007 NoMachine.
> See http://www.nomachine.com/ for more information.
> 
> Info: Agent running with pid '29402'.
> Session: Starting session at 'Sun May 11 16:06:13 2008'.
> Info: Proxy running in server mode with pid '29402'.
> Info: Waiting for connection from '127.0.0.1' on port '6000'.
> Info: Accepted connection from '127.0.0.1'.
> Info: Connection with remote proxy completed.
> Info: Using WAN link parameters 768/24/1/0.
> Info: Using agent parameters 5000/5/50/0/0.
> Info: Using cache parameters 4/4096KB/16384KB/16384KB.
> Info: Using pack method 'adaptive-9' with session 'unix-gnome'.
> Info: Using ZLIB data compression 1/1/32.
> Info: Using ZLIB stream compression 1/1.
> Info: No suitable cache file found.
> Info: Listening to X11 connections on display ':2000'.
> Info: Established X client connection.
> Info: Using shared memory parameters 1/1/1/4096K.
> Info: Using alpha channel in render extension.
> Info: Using local device configuration changes.
> Error: Aborting session with 'Could not open default font 'fixed''.
> Session: Aborting session at 'Sun May 11 16:06:19 2008'.
> 
> I changed /etc/nxcserver/node.conf to AGENT_FONT_SERVER="unix/:7100"
> 
> No help.
> 
> So on the server I tried:
> 
> /usr/libexec/nx/nxnode --agent :1
> NX-:1> 1000 NXNODE - Version 2.1.0-72 OS (GPL, using backend: 3.2.0)
> NX> 716 Starting NX Agent ...
> _XSERVTransmkdir: ERROR: euid != 0,directory /tmp/.X11-unix will not be 
> created.
> _XSERVTransSocketUNIXCreateListener: mkdir(/tmp/.X11-unix) failed, errno = 9
> _XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: failed to create listener for local
> 
> NXAGENT - Version 3.2.0
> 
> Copyright (C) 2001, 2007 NoMachine.
> See http://www.nomachine.com/ for more information.
> 
> Info: Agent running with pid '30356'.
> Session: Starting session at 'Sun May 11 21:26:31 2008'.
> Info: Using alpha channel in render extension.
> Info: Not using local device configuration changes.
> error opening security policy file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xserver/SecurityPolicy
> Session: Session started at 'Sun May 11 21:26:33 2008'.
> 
> 
> which brought up an nx window, without any font errors. Then:
> 
> /usr/libexec/nx/nxnode --agent -fp "font path options" :1
> NX--fp> 1000 NXNODE - Version 2.1.0-72 OS (GPL, using backend: 3.2.0)
> NX> 716 Starting NX Agent ...
> Unrecognized option: font path options
> use: X [:<display>] [option]
> -a #                   mouse acceleration (pixels)
> ........
> 
> 
> Does it matter that X is not running on the server?
> 
> 
> Thanks for any help.
> 
> sean
> 

Solved. xorg-x11-xfs wasn't installed. used yum and ntsysv to start xfs.

sean