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Re: [trinity-users] FreeNX generating multiple (frozen) NX client sessions

From: François Andriot <francois.andriot@...>
Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2013 22:54:41 +0200
Le 24/08/2013 22:42, Joseph Thames a écrit :
> Hello,
>
> I have TDE installed on a CenOS 6.3 VPS in the cloud, which i use an 
> NX client to access.
>
> There seems to be a wierd interaction between TDE side and top panels 
> and FreeNX. I was in the process of adding application icons to the 
> top panel when I was queried by dialog indicating that some part of 
> this process was taking too long (I don't remember the exact message) 
> and did I want to stop the process? I clicked yes, unfortunately.
>
> Now nothing works the way it did before. When I try to connect to the 
> server with the NX client, I get multiple session windows, and all of 
> them are frozen (mouse does not work internal to the session window). 
> I can drag the window from its top bar, but I can't close it, either 
> with the X button or with "close" in a pop-up dialog box.
>
> A strange aspect is that these session windows are now numbered in 
> their top bar with <2>, <4>, etc. centered. And in the panel popup of 
> my client machine associated with the NX icon, these numbers appear. 
> When I click one of them (from the client), I will get one of these 
> "windows" displayed. It might be just a top bar (actually an empty TDE 
> top panel labeled with a <number> with no window below it, or an empty 
> side panel labeled with a <number>), and it might overlap a complete 
> window (labeled at the top with some other number, e.g. <6>). Some of 
> these windows will have the side and top panels that I had populated 
> before my fatal "yes" click, but they do not respond to mouse button 
> events.
>
> The only way to get rid of these windows is the kill the nxssh 
> processes on the server (which happen to be hogging all of the 
> server's CPU time).
>
> Then I ran nxserver --terminate <username> getting rid of all of the 
> old NX sessions for my username "bear" and "root". Then rebooted the 
> server, and tried logging in again from my client machine using the NX 
> client.  The same multiple-session behavior happened again. There 
> should have been only one NX session window. But there were several.
>
> The same thing happened when loging in to root.
>
> Does anybody have a clue as to what I can do?
>
> TIA,
> Bear
> --

Which NX Client are you using ? The proprietary one ?
If yes, how is your client session configured ? In order to run TDE 
through NX, I configure as follow:
- Under "General" tab, in "Desktop" section, choose "Unix / Custom", 
then click "Settings" button.
- In "Settings" window, in "Application" section, check" Run the 
following command", then type "/opt/trinity/bin/startkde".
- In "Options" section, check "New virtual desktop"
Validate the options and re-run the session.

I often use TDE through NX remote display under CentOS, it works without 
problem (I'm on local network, not cloud).

Francois