[FreeNX-kNX] CentOS6 FreeNX never starts session

[Les Mikesell]

On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Ryan Cooley
<Ryan_Cooley at cuc.claremont.edu> wrote:
> I’ve run freenx successfully before, but on RHEL5 32-bit (x86).  Now I’ve
> just installed freenx on TWO different CentOS6.x 64-bit (x64) servers, but
> neither is working.
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> In both cases, I can login, and get an empty, black X11 window.  I know it’s
> working that far, because I can connect to the server, set my DISPLAY to
> :100x and run /etc/X11/xinit/Xsession to start my window manager properly
> and use my NX session.  Obviously, that’s not good enough, and I need to get
> NX launching the session on login like it should, but nothing in the logs
> (~/.nx/ and /var/log/nx/) indicates any problem.  --check is pretty
> worthless, as it always complains.
>
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> I wrote a tiny shell script that, when run, just creates a file in /tmp,
> filled with the date and a few user variables.  If I tell the nxclient to
> run that command as my shell, it is NEVER executed, as I’ve never seen a
> file show up, after dozens of attempts.  I have SELINUX disabled, and
> nothing is notably pathological about my installations…  One of the two is
> pretty plain vanilla CentOS6.x.  Now I’m trying with OpenNX, but no change.
>
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> I’d appreciate any help tracking down where this process is hanging-up.  I’m
> amazed there aren’t more reports of problems like this, because I’m seeing a
> 100% failure rate on CentOS6.

Are you sure you have the desktop type installed that the client is
requesting?   Maybe the client is asking for KDE but CentOS only has
gnome.

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  Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell at gmail.com