On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 01:48:18PM +0200, Martin Honermeyer wrote: > Hello Bodo, > > Bodo Eggert wrote: > > > On Sat, 25 Jun 2005, Martin Honermeyer wrote: > > > >> * Deleted everything from /tmp. > >> * Tried to login again => same problem, window closes after a few seconds > >> * looked at the user's .xsession-errors file: > >> _IceTransmkdir: ERROR: Owner of /tmp/.ICE-unix must be set to root > > [...] > > > >> Note: I have to re-run those two commands every time I reboot the > >> VServer. It seems like starting an X-Server from within FreeNX doesn't > >> set up those permissions in /tmp correctly. Maybe that's because I don't > >> have something like KDM run beforehand. > > > > It's a common error, caused by KDE. It expects the boot scripts to create > > this dir, and if there is none, it will mess it up. > > > > The [KX]DM startup script should create that directory, check if it's > > owned by root and chmod it to 1777. If it isn't, remove or rename the > > directory and retry a limited number of times. > > > > As FreeNX doesn't need a display manager _at all_, why should I XDM? I think > the easiest solution is two put the lines > > # fix X11/KDE problems > rm -fR /tmp/.ICE-unix /tmp/.X11-unix > mkdir /tmp/.ICE-unix /tmp/.X11-unix > chmod 1777 /tmp/.ICE-unix /tmp/.X11-unix > > into /etc/conf.d/local.start (Gentoo VServer), so it is run on every boot. > That would fix it for me. > > > I've got an additional problem resulting from the inability to access pty's > from the guest. I'd like to start xterm / konsole in my kde sessions. This > isn't possible ("not enough ptys"). Is it possible to get this running? > Using secure mounts maybe?
hmm, with a proper setup this should not happen ... please provide some logs (maybe an strace of the xterm start?) and check in the kernel log for suspicious messages ... best, Herbert > Martin > > > > _______________________________________________ > Vserver mailing list > Vserver@list.linux-vserver.org > http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver _______________________________________________ Vserver mailing list Vserver@list.linux-vserver.org http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver