On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 21:10 -0400, Jeremy Gray wrote: > Hi all, > > thanks for the many thoughtful replies, especially Trevor Benson for > the detailed list of suggestions. I've everything suggested but still > get authentication that times out before a gnome session comes up. I > tried scraping things out on the server side, reinstalling, rebooting, > make a completely new test user account, restarting the X on the > client side. I try to connect to the new account, and still get > authenticated but no gnome for centos 5. from the same nxclient I can > connect to a centos 4.4 box, and vnc connects fine to centos 5 and > gives me a gnome desktop. looks to me like it might be a quirk of the > new mac client interacting with the centos 5 nxserver (but not 4.4), > based on other folks connecting just fine to centos 5. > > there was a note about "known issues" on the wiki, so I also installed > the NX client for linux and installing on the server: > rpm -i nxclient-2.1.0-17.i386.rpm > this gives me new stuff in /usr/NX which I also copied to the freenx > style directory for good measure and restarted things > cp /usr/NX/bin/nxclient /etc/nxserver/ > nxserver --restart > > I tried connecting from client, authenticates but no gnome. > > the nxclient I am using (mac OS X) I downloaded within the last week, > the nomachine site says its release 2.1.0-17. and using this same > installation of nxclient on my mac I get a gnome session when > connecting to a centos 4.4 box > > in case its useful to have more of a play-by-play in the archives, > here what I tried: > > #on centos 5 server machine, I removed, reinstalled, rebooted: > su > yum remove nx freenx > # the remove succeeds, I do the following for good measure > rm -Rf /etc/nxserver > rm -Rf ~<me>/.nx > reboot > > # server comes up > su > yum update > yum install nx freenx > # output looks good, includes: > # Stopping sshd: [ OK ] > # Starting sshd: [ OK ] > # Installed: freenx.i386 0:0.5.0-13.el5.centos nx.i386 > 0:2.1.0-6.el5.centos > # Complete! > > nxserver --adduser me > nxserver --passwd me > # manually copy /etc/nxserver/client.id_dsa.key --> client nxviewer > reboot > > # server comes up > nmap -p 1-65535 localhost > # the only open port is > # 22/tcp open ssh > # and I have ssh forwarding enabled, even though it should not make a > difference > > nxserver --status > # NX> 100 NXSERVER - Version 1.5.0-60-SVN OS (GPL) > # NX> 110 NX Server is running > # NX> 999 Bye > > # so at this point I try to connect from the client, I get > authenticated and then nothing more, times out after a minute > # now I add a new user account to the system, testuser, a completely > new account, and add this account to the nx users > nxserver --useradd testuser > > # from the client, I try connecting to account testuser, get > authenticated, no gnome desktop (or anything else), > # and the connection times out. the error in the client "details" > window is > NX> 203 NXSSH running with pid: 1732 > 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: testuser > NX> 102 Password: > NX> 103 Welcome to: ***edited*** user: testuser > NX> 105 listsession --user="testuser" --status="suspended,running" > --geometry="1280x854x32+render" --type="unix-gnome" > NX> 127 Sessions list of user 'testuser' for reconnect: > > Display Type Session ID Options > Depth Screen Status Session Name > ------- ---------------- -------------------------------- -------- > ----- -------------- ----------- ------------------------------ > > > NX> 148 Server capacity: not reached for user: testuser > 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. Now ... this seems a really silly question ... but I will ask it anyway. You do fully have Gnome installed on the server in question, right? -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20070427/59fa0e17/attachment-0005.sig>