Re: [CentOS] Re:Re:Can't get past the splash screen

2008-05-22 Thread Alex White

Eon Strife wrote:

Hi,
Thanks, it's Gnome, and I'm stuck when I login as root.
By using Putty, I managed to create a new user, and then I tried to login to 
desktop(using nomachine) as that user, and yes, it works. The problem now is 
that I stuck when I login as the root.




NX 596 Session startup failed.- 
The additional line in the sshlog of the root
NX 1004 Error: NX Agent exited with exit status 1.
Can't open 
/var/lib/nxserver/db/running/sessionId{0C2C8B077AB56ED37F7A5A72FE8FA7BF}: No 
such file or directory.
mv: cannot stat 
`/var/lib/nxserver/db/running/sessionId{0C2C8B077AB56ED37F7A5A72FE8FA7BF}': No 
such file or directory
NX 1006 Session status: closed
Exited with status 0. User pressed Ok.


As a regular user you shouldn't be able to look into that directory, 
so that's normal. Only root and nx can do that.


Interesting (at least to me) is that you get an error concerning a 
session that I do not believe it should be looking for. It's like 
it's attempting to reattach to a session that doesn't exist and then 
it fails. I could be incorrect, but at this point it's simply a data 
point.


On the client machine (assuming it is linux), have you removed all 
session data from the user's home directory? By default this is 
~/.nx/cache-unix-windowmanagername (for you that is likely gnome) 
and ~/.nx/letter-hostname-screen-somerandomhashIthink/


Don't remove the config directory or else you'll have to set up the 
nx information again. See if that doesn't fix the issue. It may not, 
and I'm sorry if it doesn't, but I am not entirely sure about this 
particular issue.


If the client machine is a windows machine there is a .nx directory, 
but I am not sure where it's kept. C:\documents and 
settings\user\.nx maybe. That is where it resides on my windows 
install at work on XP. I may or may not have changed the directory 
so you might have to look around a bit.



HTH

Alex White
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Re: [CentOS] Re:Re:Can't get past the splash screen

2008-05-21 Thread MHR
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 10:58 PM, Eon Strife [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I checked the permission of that var/lib/nxserver/ (and folders (including 
 /db/running/ ) and files inside it), the permission is 0700 
 (read,write,execute enabled for the owner), with the group is root and owner 
 is the nx. And yes, also using the root I can view the content of the 
 var/lib/nxserver. If I login using that new user, I can't view the content.

No?  Have you tried to 'su' in a terminal window to look at it?

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[CentOS] Re:Re:Can't get past the splash screen

2008-05-20 Thread Eon Strife
Hi,
Thanks, it's Gnome, and I'm stuck when I login as root.
By using Putty, I managed to create a new user, and then I tried to login to 
desktop(using nomachine) as that user, and yes, it works. The problem now is 
that I stuck when I login as the root.

Then, I compared the runlog (the one I wrote in that previous email), between 
the root's and the new user's and, they're the same. 

Then, I compared the sshlog, and I found discrepancies. In the sshlog of the 
root, there are some additional lines saying unable to open a file and unable 
to start the sesion:
===
NX 285 Identified internal connection
NX 285 Using default mode encrypted
NX 285 Identified options: 
nx/nx,options=/cygdrive/C/Users/EONSTR~1/NX73F8~1/S-8728~1.ORG/options:1000
NX 280 Proxy opened with local: 7 remote: 8
NX 285 Switching descriptors: 4 and: 5 to: 7

NX 287 Redirected I/O to channel descriptors
NX 280 Proxy in: 4 out: 5 transport in: 8 out: 8

NX 596 Session startup failed.- 
The additional line in the sshlog of the root
NX 1004 Error: NX Agent exited with exit status 1.
Can't open 
/var/lib/nxserver/db/running/sessionId{0C2C8B077AB56ED37F7A5A72FE8FA7BF}: No 
such file or directory.
mv: cannot stat 
`/var/lib/nxserver/db/running/sessionId{0C2C8B077AB56ED37F7A5A72FE8FA7BF}': No 
such file or directory
NX 1006 Session status: closed
Exited with status 0. User pressed Ok.
===

 
I checked the permission of that var/lib/nxserver/ (and folders (including 
/db/running/ ) and files inside it), the permission is 0700 (read,write,execute 
enabled for the owner), with the group is root and owner is the nx. And yes, 
also using the root I can view the content of the var/lib/nxserver. If I login 
using that new user, I can't view the content.

Oh,yeah, pressing start and leaving for few hours don't solve the problem.

Checking the .bash_history file, these are the commands I issued around the 
time when I messed up :

===
useradd aaa
useradd --help
useradd abc
passwd aaa
useradd --help
useradd -d /home// -p aa aaa
which useradd
/etc/rc.d/init.d/autofs stop
/etc/rc.d/init.d/autofs start
/etc/rc.d/init.d/autofs stop
/etc/rc.d/init.d/autofs start
/etc/rc.d/init.d/autofs stop
/etc/rc.d/init.d/autofs start
/etc/rc.d/init.d/autofs stop
etc/rc.d/init.d/autofs start
/etc/rc.d/init.d/autofs start
/etc/rc.d/init.d/autofs stop
userdel --help
userdel aaa
passwd aaa
/etc/rc.d/init.d/autofs start
/etc/rc.d/init.d/autofs stop
cd /home/
ls
rmdir --help
cd aaa
ls
del --help
delfile --help
cd \.
cd /.
cd /home/
rm -r /home/aaa/
ls
/etc/rc.d/init.d/autofs start
/etc/rc.d/init.d/autofs reload
/etc/rc.d/init.d/autofs start
/etc/rc.d/init.d/autofs start
/etc/rc.d/init.d/autofs stop
/etc/rc.d/init.d/autofs start
ls
/etc/rc.d/init.d/autofs stop
exit
ypcat
ypcat group
group
grouplist
groupls
groups
users
uname
uname -s -n -m -r
id
whoami
w root
w
ps
ps
ps -f
ps -a
===


Thanks.


===

I am not in front of a machine with the nxclient on it, I will be in the 
morning and can see what some of the logs look like there; however, the 
ling concerning automatic reconnect to true makes me think the device is 
attempting to start up a session that doesn't exist. I can't prove that, 
but I will have more information tomorrow.

Concerning your screen shot, I've only ever been stuck at that screen 
once and simply hitting enter at the keyboard made it vanish. The splash 
screen should time out anyhow once the start up stuff times out if 
gnome/kde/xfce's initialization routine takes too long.

What desktop (window manager?) are you using? Is it Gnome, KDE or 
something else? I've not seen selinux create an issue, but for posterity 
is it running? Does it log anything on the system you're attempting to 
connect with? Oh, what about permissions for the user? Does the user 
have the ability to write to his/her home directory properly? You could 
be getting stuck on the splash screen because the user can't write any 
data for the initialization.

Sincerely,

Alex White
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