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 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20070425/70679932/attachment-0004.sig>