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lnzju

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Registered: 2006-02-20

Posts: 30

When I connected to FREENX server, the client can see nothing

I choose UNIX-KDE in my client, but only find a black windows with 1024x768 when connected ,  and when I check the server, I found no KDE running.

On my client machine I edit the connection,  select  "custom" under the desktop section, and manually specify the command for starting kde. but  that doesn't work eighter .

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lnzju

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Registered: 2006-02-20

Posts: 30

Re: When I connected to FREENX server, the client can see nothing

In the WIKI, I find the following, but that doesn't help

 NX Crashes on session startup

If your NX Client shows the NX logo then disappears with a Connection Problem dialog afterwards.

Then it could be due to missing fonts. Mostly applies if you have installed ArchLinux base and then installed freenx after without the whole X11 set.

Solution until FreeNX Dependencies is fixed is to install xorg-fonts-misc on your NX Server (pacman -S xorg-fonts-misc) and your NX should work.

Note: This does not apply to freenx 0.6.1-3 and above, fix has been incorporated in it and following versions.

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jcci

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From: China / Germany

Registered: 2007-06-10

Posts: 185

Re: When I connected to FREENX server, the client can see nothing

Same problem here. The NX client authentificates and tries long time connecting with the X server. When I check the server side I can see one running session until the client timeout. The X server connection just doesn't start up.
I just dicovered this exciting distro and would like use it in our company very much. But we use NX terminal server locally and via VPN. So this is essential to us.
By the way: Which client works on Arch-Linuc 64-bit? KNX is not available and Nomachines NX is I386. Does is work?

jcci

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From: China / Germany

Registered: 2007-06-10

Posts: 185

Re: When I connected to FREENX server, the client can see nothing

Anybody is using NX with Arch?
Pity; I really could need some help here.

jcci

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From: China / Germany

Registered: 2007-06-10

Posts: 185

Re: When I connected to FREENX server, the client can see nothing

I checked this issue with 32 and 64 bit versions, as well as different desktops to connect to (KDE, Gnome, XFCE4). The problem is always the same, so I believe the actual version of freenx is just buggy. Please, whoever maintains freenx, have a look at it. The problem happens with any NX client. I used the new version 3 due to best logging. Again in short:
- Installation and nxsetup works well
- Authentification works
- Downloading session information works
- The clients last message is: "Established the display connection"
At this point Nomchines session administrator shows a running session, although no display is showing up. A little later the client terminates with a timeout and following log:
nfo: Proxy running in client mode with pid '7600'.
Session: Starting session at 'Sat Jun 30 11:26:05 2007'.
Info: Connecting to remote host '192.168.1.50:5000'.
Info: Connection to remote proxy '192.168.1.50:5000' established.
Warning: Connected to remote version 2.1.0 with local version 3.0.0.
Info: Connection with remote proxy completed.
Info: Using LAN link parameters 1536/24/1/0.
Info: Using image streaming parameters 50/128/1024KB/6144/768.
Info: Using image cache parameters 1/1/32768KB.
Info: Using pack method '16m-rle-9' with session 'unix-kde'.
Info: Not using NX delta compression.
Info: Not using ZLIB data compression.
Info: Not using ZLIB stream compression.
Info: Not using a persistent cache.
Info: Forwarding X11 connections to display ':0.0'.
Session: Session started at 'Sat Jun 30 11:26:05 2007'.
Info: Established X server connection.
Info: Using shared memory parameters 1/2048K.
Session: Terminating session at 'Sat Jun 30 11:27:07 2007'.
Info: Waiting the cleanup timeout to complete.
Warning: Parent process appears to be dead. Exiting watchdog.

Last edited by jcci (2007-06-30 03:31:38)