How to remove NoMachine NX server?

[amivaleo]

I get this error message during boot:

Failed to start NoMachine Server daemon
See ‘systemctl status nxserver.service’ for details.

But if I give that command in a shell, I get:

$ systemctl status nxserver.service
Unit nxserver.service could not be found.

I remember that I tried to install NoMachine months ago. I guess I made some mistake when uninstalling it.

I tried to search for “nxserver” in nautilus, and I get no result. But if I search “nx” I find a lot of results, one being a “NX” folder in /usr/ path. I guess this folder gets deleted if nxserver is correctly uninstalled. Still I’m not really sure how to do that.

I do I get rid of such boot error message? How do I completely uninstall such nxserver?

I use Fedora 30.

[zaq]

Hello Amivaleo

Looks like really something went wrong during uninstallation. I think that the quickest way to solve your problem is to install again and uninstall NoMachine following the regular procedure. Please follow these steps:

1) remove leftover dirs:

sudo rm -rf /usr/NX /etc/NX /var/NX

2) install again:

sudo rpm -i nomachine_6.7.6_11_x86_64.rpm

3) uninstall:

sudo rpm -e nomachine

[amivaleo]

Uhm…

I’ve tried your suggestion. After a reboot, I still get the same errors in /var/log/boot.log. 😢

[zaq]

Hello

I assume, that you have now uninstalled NoMachine.
Please run this commands and preserve output of them:

sudo systemctl stop nxserver.service
sudo systemctl disable nxserver.service
sudo rm /etc/systemd/system/nxserver.service
sudo rm /usr/lib/systemd/system/nxserver.service
sudo rm /etc/init.d/nxserver.service
sudo rm /etc/init.d/nxserver
sudo systemctl reset-failed nxserver.service

After executed this commands if you still get the same error, please
show us the commands output.

[amivaleo]

I tried to mv boot.log to a backup file and, after a reboot, I didn’t have any failure. 🤔

So maybe the previous hint worked fine… Or maybe that boot.log is really old. I assumed that it got overwritten at any new boot event.

I can flag this as “solved” then.

Thank you for your help! 🙂

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