Package: freenx
Version: 0.4.4+0.4.5-3
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
My NXClient starts, authenticates, talks to the remote freenx and seems
to have gone through all the necessary steps yet I didn't get connected
and got timed-out or "lost connection" errors [1] (the NXClient doesn't
start a new window or a virtual desktop, etc) after much looking I finally
guessed that it might have been a fonts problem on the nxserver side and
I was right. Many have complained about this (such as in this post/thread
[2]) yet there hasn't been much of a discussion regarding how to address
this problem. A solution is presented below.
FONT Solution
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In your /etc/nxserver/node.conf add the following lines (or replace
the relevant empty comments sections with),
XSERVER_CONF="/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
AGENT_EXTRA_OPTIONS_X="-fp $(echo $(grep -v '^ *#' $XSERVER_CONF | grep
FontPath | awk '{print $2}' | sed -r "s/^[\"']|[\"']$//g") | sed 's/ /,/g')"
Note the XSERVER_CONF could be what is noted above or "/etc/X11/XF86Config-4"
NO COLOR Solution
-----------------
If your NXClient finally does start yet you can't seem to see the proper
colors (or you end-up with a black-on-black screen) do the following,
sudo ln -s /etc/X11/rgb.txt /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb.txt
The nxagent (part of freenx) has /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb.txt hard-coded
instead of providing an option to point to where it needs to be (possibly
via the node.conf file).
I've spent close to 4-days (on-n-off) on this and I'm sure there are
others that might appreciate these pointers/solutions.
NOTE: the meta key within the NXClient doesn't seem to work
(but that is minor related to what is noted above).
[1] "Error: Lost connection to peer proxy on FD#10"
[2] http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/freenx-knx/2006-July/003676.html
Regards,
- Nadim
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages freenx depends on:
ii adduser 3.97 Add and remove users and groups
ii bash 3.1-5 The GNU Bourne Again SHell
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.3 Debian configuration management sy
ii expect 5.43.0-7 A program that can automate intera
ii netcat 1.10-32 TCP/IP swiss army knife
ii nxagent 1.4.92+1.5.0-4 NoMachine NX - nesting X server wi
ii ssh 1:4.3p2-3 Secure shell client and server (tr
ii xbase-clients 1:7.1.ds-3 miscellaneous X clients
ii xfonts-base 1:1.0.0-3 standard fonts for X
freenx recommends no packages.
-- debconf information:
freenx/configured: true
freenx/no_shadow:
* freenx/key_type: NoMachine Keys
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