Axel Schweiger

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    Thanks for looking into this. Much appreciated.

    I have removed the NoMachine package (apt remove –purge), removed the /usr/NX and ~/.nx directories and reinstalled and tried 7.8.2. The result so far remains the same. It appears that the start of the xsession is unsuccessful.  The

    /usr/NX/etc/node.cfg file has this command

    CommandStartGnome “dbus-launch –exit-with-session gnome-session –session=ubuntu –disable-acceleration-check”

    and the

    ~/.nx/nxserver.log  has multiple entries like this:

    21842 21842 2022-02-22 15:29:35 862.181 NXNODE   ERROR! Application terminated too early.
    22261 22261 2022-02-22 15:30:37 499.466 NXNODE   WARNING! Process ‘/bin/bash –norc -c exec -a – /bin/tcsh -c
    ‘dbus-launch –exit-with-session gnome-session –session=ubuntu –disable-acceleration-check” with pid ‘22338
    /22338’ finished with exit code 1 after 0,247 seconds.

    So it appears that somehow the starting of the ubuntu desktop session crashes when launched.

    The output from : grep ^Exec /usr/share/xsessions/*.desktop
    /usr/share/xsessions/gnome-classic.desktop:Exec=gnome-session-classic
    /usr/share/xsessions/gnome.desktop:Exec=gnome-session
    /usr/share/xsessions/gnome-xorg.desktop:Exec=gnome-session
    /usr/share/xsessions/plasma.desktop:Exec=/usr/bin/startkde
    /usr/share/xsessions/ubuntu-communitheme-snap.desktop:Exec=env GNOME_SHELL_SESSION_MODE=ubuntu-communitheme /snap/communitheme/current/session
    /usr/share/xsessions/ubuntu.desktop:Exec=env GNOME_SHELL_SESSION_MODE=ubuntu gnome-session –session=ubuntu
    /usr/share/xsessions/xfce.desktop:Exec=startxfce4

    Note that I can connect to this system with a NoMachine client fine when starting the xsession separately. I have used xrdp (Windows Remote Desktop server). Windows Remote Desktop seems to start the session  and then I can connect with the Windows NoMachine client. This is my current workaround, which might be useful to know for others who have “headless” issues.

    Axel

    Axel Schweiger
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    update and request for help on this

    As suggested I had added the –disable-acceleration-check to the default startup command and get this error in the .nx/nxserver.log . Don’t know why this didn’t work above. Must have messed up something. How can I debug this further, I really need to get this working again. Thanks!!!

    NXNODE   WARNING! Process ‘/bin/bash –norc -c exec -a – /bin/tcsh -c ‘dbus-launch –exit-with-session gnome-session –session=ubuntu –disable-acceleration-check” with pid ‘6763/6763’ finished with exit code 1 after 0,301 seconds.
    6709 6709 2022-02-22 11:21:46 976.084 NXNODE   ERROR! Application terminated too early.
    6709 6709 2022-02-22 11:21:47 008.287 NXNODE   ERROR! Session application terminated abnormally

    From <https://forums.nomachine.com/topic/nxframebuffer-failed-to-start-on-headless-node-after-upgrade-to-version-7-7-4>

    Axel Schweiger
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    Thank you for your response and the suggestions. Unfortunately it doesn’t help. A peculiar thing is that when I look at the nxserver.log in the .nx directory of my home account, I notice the following:

     WARNING! Process ‘/bin/bash –norc -c exec -a – /bin/tcsh -c ‘dbus-launch –exit-with-session gnome-session –session=ubuntu” with pid ‘11334/11334’ finished with exit code 1 after 0,297 sec
    onds.
    11282 11282 2022-01-24 10:29:49 110.973 NXNODE   ERROR! Application terminated too early.

    This seems to suggest that the edited command in the /usr/NX/etc/node.cfg isn’t even used? I verified that it is properly in the node.cfg file.   I removed the .nx directory in my home directory completely but that didn’t help either.

     grep -i dbus /usr/NX/etc/node.cfg
    DefaultDesktopCommand “dbus-launch –exit-with-session gnome-session –session=ubuntu”
    #CommandStartGnome “dbus-launch –exit-with-session gnome-session –session=ubuntu”
    CommandStartGnome “dbus-launch –exit-with-session gnome-session –session=ubuntu –disable-acceleration-check”
    # 1: Enabled. The node will use dbus-launch to run single commands
    #    which rely on dbus-launch for standard X session in order to let
    # 0: Disabled. Do not use dbus-launch for executing single commands.
    EnableDbusLaunch 1

    So where is the dbus command coming from if not from node.cfg?  Note that this is the free version and it seems like the node isn’t specifically configured. When I  (but I don’t really understand what’s going on there and how the node gets launched in this case.

    /usr/NX/bin/nxserver –startup
    NX> 111 New connections to NoMachine server are enabled.
    NX> 161 Enabled service: nxserver.
    NX> 162 WARNING: Cannot find X servers running on this machine.
    NX> 162 WARNING: A new virtual display will be created on demand.
    NX> 161 Enabled service: nxd.

    You referring to other logs to send, can you point me to what logs those would be?

    Not sure if this helps but I can start a gnome session just fine using xrdp on the same server. I actually can connect to it also via the NoMachine client.

    Thanks

    Axel

    Axel Schweiger
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    update on this. If I start the gdm3 or lightdm server by hand:

    systemctl start gdm3

    I get a display (however not with the right resolution). But I never had to do this, my understanding is that NoMachine has its own window manager, it appears that it fails launching (even though CreateDisplay is set to 1)

    I tried the switching between lightdm and gdm3 and also played with the enable Wayland option in the gdm3.conf file. No change

    Thanks

    Axel

    in reply to: Cut and paste from Win 10 to Linux session #10393
    Axel Schweiger
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    Graywolf,

    Thanks for following up. I lost track of the issue but just came back to it just now. For some reason it works now and I can cut and paste both ways.  Maybe there was a fix in the latest NoMachine client update that happened?

    Thanks

    Axel

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