[FreeNX-kNX] freenx-server-0.7.3 on Alpha

[Bob Tracy]

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 11:47:29PM +0100, Terje Andersen wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Mar 2009 16:22:34 -0500
> Bob Tracy <rct at gherkin.frus.com> wrote:
> > Shortly after Debian "lenny" was released, my machine was auto-upgraded
> > to the next development release (squeeze).  Since that upgrade, I can no
> > longer use a gnome session with FreeNX.  KDE sessions still work fine.
> > Gnome works fine on the console.  With FreeNX, I get the desktop
> > background, but nothing else...  "ps" shows gnome-session running, and
> > it appears to be hung waiting for something to happen(???).  When I
> > login on the console (gnome), gnome-session does whatever it does and
> > exits.  If anyone has any insight as to what's going on, I'd appreciate
> > some troubleshooting hints.  Thanks in advance!
> 
> DBUS related?

That was the clue I needed.  Changing COMMAND_START_GNOME from the
default "/usr/bin/gnome-session" to
"/usr/bin/dbus-launch /usr/bin/gnome-session" in "node.conf" did
the trick.   I don't know why this is now required where it wasn't
before, but I note that other users have had similar problems in the
past.  I also don't know whether this is the "final" form of the
solution: I may end up adding other arguments to "dbus-launch" if
needed to make things exit properly when I end the session.

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