[FreeNX-kNX] Re: Fedora 14 black screen

[Mario Ceresa]

Hey Chris,

I solved the problem!

I switched to xterm as you suggested and nothing was happening. So I
dwelled into the code and, after an intense debug session and a cup of
coffe, I discovered that the nxnode script was dying mercilessly just
before invoking the $NODE_APPLICATION. Why? It sources the user
profile and mine contained the line:

exec /usr/bin/ssh-agent $SHELL

Commenting it out did the magic. Any idea why it interferes with NX?
It works with local or ssh login.

I have to say that the bash code is quite straitforward to follow,
however it would be nice to have a log file also for the nxnode, maybe
as another file into the C-session dir? Now I only see logs for
nxserver and nxagent, but there is at least another
nxnode-blank-screen related issue in the FAQ:

http://openfacts2.berlios.de/wikien/index.php/BerliosProject:FreeNX_-_FAQ/Problem_Solving#When_I_connect.2C_all_I_get_is_a_blank_screen

so maybe it could be worthy putting some debug statements in it too.

Is freenx still actively mantained? I see the last release on berlios
is from 2008

Thanks for the hint and congrats: NX performance is really impressive!

Best,

Mario

On 28 April 2011 14:13,  <chris at ccburton.com> wrote:
>
> Mario Ceresa <mrceresa at gmail.com> wrote on 28/04/2011 12:38:21:
>
>> Hello everybody!
>>
>> I installed freenx-server (ver 0.7.3) from fedora repositories. I can
>> login, autenticate as my regolar user but then I only get a black
>> screen.
>>
>> I think I tried more than a dozen *freenx black screen problem* including:
>>
>>
> http://www.nomachine.com/ar/view.php?ar_id=AR01F00501
>> http://openfacts2.berlios.de/wikien/index.php/BerliosProject:
>> FreeNX_-_FAQ/Problem_Solving
>>
>> and much, but with no result.
>>
>> My configuration is:
>>
>> # cat /var/log/nx/nxserver.log
>> http://fpaste.org/F7PX/
>>
>> cat .nx/C-gervis-2000-126B025F243D3E52D6B1936937F7FDD6/session
>> http://fpaste.org/9kZD/
>>
>> Thanks for any help you might provide!
>
> Did you iinstall all the fedora patches ??
>
> I don't think I can be much help, however
>
> Try gnome instead of kde
> or
> Try setting xterm under
> <Configure><General><Desktop><Custom><Settings>
> <Run the following command>
> and see if it's a problem there too.
>
> You can try startkde from within xterm.
>
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Mario
>
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