On Wednesday 25 April 2007 10:24:02 pm Kai Yang Tay wrote:
For 'startx' fatal error, I am not able to describe much, because i have removed the OS from the server.
The server i am using is a DELL PowerEdge 840
- Pentium D 2.8Ghz Pro 915
- 1GB DDR2 ECC
- C4 RAID 1 Card
- 160GB SATA 2
As mentioned in my first post. Basically I get the error with these few easy steps 1 - Fresh Installed CentOS 5 2 - Use yum to install Yumex first 3 - Use yumex to install FreeNX - and follow the instructions from http://wiki.centos.org/FreeNX
4 - After installation, I go into /usr/bin/nxserver to --adduser root 5 - Then I --passwd root and set a password.
6 - Later I went to /etc/nxserver and copy a copy of client.id_dsa.key to my thumbdrive. 6, A - <<Add>>, I also config my server to static ip 192.168.1.5 before i reboot the server
7 - I reboot the server after that, and leave it aside without local login anymore. 8 - I setup my NXClient and copy the .key before i log into the server with the root account 9 - I get a successful login. 10 - Now I will reboot the server through the remote NX session. 11 - I go to System -> Log Off -> and select Reboot. 12 - The server reboot, and my NX client was cut off with a violent error, saying something like "Connection has been disconnected" etc. 13 - After the reboot, I can no longer log into server with NX anymore. The client will prompt error msg, like what PASTED in the first post. 14 - I then turn back to local login, and here GOES~ the GNOME, i am left with only console login.
From your initial post: <quote> NX> 1006 Session status: running NX> 596 Session startup failed. NX> 1004 Error: NX Agent exited with exit status 1. Can't open /var/lib/nxserver/db/running/sessionId{1279B1D659A32AEF7AA88D7C50CA5619}: No such file or directory. mv: cannot stat `/var/lib/nxserver/db/running/sessionId{1279B1D659A32AEF7AA88D7C50CA5619}': No such file or directory NX> 1006 Session status: closed NX> 1001 Bye. bye </quote>
This seems to be indicating that your trying to reconnect to a session that doesn't exist.
But, I think the FreeNX error is misleading you, and you have an X server problem, since you've said that you can no longer run 'startx' from the server locally. If you can't log into GNOME, or run startx, then you have a misconfigured X server. And FreeNX can't work (AFAIK) without X.
I recommend these steps: Install the O/S Update the O/S reboot make sure X still works (Do this without installing or configuring FreeNX)
Once you have a fully updated system, with X running. Then try to install and configure FreeNX.
HTH, Tim