[CentOS] FreeNX authenticates but no desktop on centos 5 ??

[Jeremy Gray]

and here's even more details

On 4/26/07, Jeremy Gray <jrgray at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 4/26/07, Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 4/26/07, Jeremy Gray <jrgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > However, I note that at http://wiki.centos.org/FreeNX is says that
> > freenx
> > > only works with centos 4, which I am hoping is simply out of date, as
> > freenx
> > > is shipped as part of centos 5. I saw a post today saying that freenx
> > is
> > > supposed to work exactly the same on CentOS 5 as per instructions for
> > 4.
> > > hmmm. I've tried uninstalling freenx on the centOS 5 machine and
> > > reinstalling.
> > >
> > > any suggestions appreciated! many thanks,
> >
> > I wish I could say something useful to you.  I followed the
> > instructions at http://wiki.centos.org/FreeNX and all is fine on
> > CentOS 5.
> >
> > All I did on the server mchine was to 'run yum install nx freenx' and
> > nothing else.  It creates user "nx" on the server.  For the client,
> > again, I followed the procedure exactly as shown on the wiki page,
> > nothing extra.
>
>
> thanks for the encouragement, Akemi!
>
> here's slightly more info. I just tried nmap'ing the two machines ("nmap
> -p 1-65535 localhost"). the centos 4.4 machine has two open ports when I
> have an active nx connection: port 22/tcp for ssh, and port 7000/tcp for
> "afs3-fileserver". on the centos 5 machine, I have port 22/tcp open for ssh
> but nothing else is open, nor does something pop open when the nxclient
> authenticates.
>

sorry, I should have posted this in my original post (but didn't know where
to find it). the error message in the client when the connection attempt
times out says:

NX> 203 NXSSH running with pid: 1600
NX> 285 Enabling check on switch command
NX> 285 Enabling skip of SSH config files
NX> 285 Setting the preferred NX options
NX> 200 Connected to address: ***edited*** on port: 22
NX> 202 Authenticating user: nx
NX> 208 Using auth method: publickey
HELLO NXSERVER - Version 1.5.0-60-SVN OS (GPL)
NX> 105 hello NXCLIENT - Version 1.5.0
NX> 134 Accepted protocol: 1.5.0
NX> 105 SET SHELL_MODE SHELL
NX> 105 SET AUTH_MODE PASSWORD
NX> 105 login
NX> 101 User: ***edited***
NX> 102 Password:
NX> 103 Welcome to: ***edited*** user: ***edited***
NX> 105 listsession --user="***edited***" --status="suspended,running"
--geometry="1280x854x32+render" --type="unix-gnome"
NX> 127 Sessions list of user '***edited***' for reconnect:

Display Type             Session ID                       Options  Depth
Screen         Status      Session Name
------- ---------------- -------------------------------- -------- -----
-------------- ----------- ------------------------------


NX> 148 Server capacity: not reached for user: ***edited***
NX> 105 startsession  --link="isdn" --backingstore="1" --nodelay="1"
--encryption="1" --cache="8M" --images="32M" --media="0"
--session="**edited**" --type="unix-gnome" --geometry="1024x768+128+30"
--kbtype="query" --screeninfo="1024x768x32+render"

ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host
Killed by signal 15.


there are some minor difference in the startsession call between the centos
4.4 (when looking at ~/.nx/temp/sshlog) and centos 5 (the above error log),
but these seem really minor (--kbtype and --link).  a mystery. maybe I'm
just destined to be a vnc user :-).
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