Custom session does not work: xterm error

[Ceewhat]

Dear Nomachine,

I’ve been using nx for a number of years without any problems. However, when I updated to version 4 I found myself a number of issues. Most of them have been solved, but there is still an error with the custom session and scaling of the resolution when using the same session on different computers.

When I connect with a custom session, I keep getting the following error:

Cannot run /ect/X11/Xsession

Please enure that the requested path is in the system PATH and that you have the appropriate credentials to run it. (for floating window selection)

OR

Cannot run ‘xterm’ Please enure that the requested path is in the system PATH and that you have the appropriate credentials to run it. (for virtual desktop selection)

The suggested workaround mentioned in: https://www.nomachine.com/TR10K03974  does not seem to work.

When I type ‘xterm’ locally in my terminal window, this works fine.

 

I encounter these problems with nx version 4.0396 for Mac, both on OS X 10.6.8 and 10.7.5.

Remote machine is a Linux CentOS 6.3 (gnome) version running NXSERVER-4.0.369 small business server subscription.

Any thoughts on this would be appreciated.

 

Many thanks,

Cédric

 

 

 

[reza]

Please execute the commands listed below and paste the output.

cat /usr/NX/etc/node.cfg | grep DefaultXSession

ls -l /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession /etc/X11/Xsession /ect/X11/Xsession

[Ceewhat]

cedric$ cat /usr/NX/etc/node.cfg | grep DefaultXSessioncat: /usr/NX/etc/node.cfg: No such file or directory

cedric$ ls -l /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession /etc/X11/Xsession /ect/X11/Xsession
ls: /ect/X11/Xsession: No such file or directory
ls: /etc/X11/Xsession: No such file or directory
ls: /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession: No such file or directory

on both my iMac and MBP I get the same output. X11/XQuartz is installed in either /Applications/Utilities/XQuartz or /Applications/Utilities/X11.

the Xsession file is  present here:

/opt/X11/lib/X11/xdm/Xsession
/usr/X11/lib/X11/xdm/Xsession

Best,

Cédric

[reza]

Can you execute the same commands on server side?

On CentOS 6.3 machine you mentioned before.

[Ceewhat]

On the server side:

 

cat /usr/NX/etc/node.cfg | grep DefaultXSession
DefaultXSession /etc/X11/Xsession

 

ls -l /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession /etc/X11/Xsession /ect/X11/Xsession
ls: cannot access /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession: No such file or directory
ls: cannot access /etc/X11/Xsession: No such file or directory
ls: cannot access /ect/X11/Xsession: No such file or directory

[reza]

Thank you Ceewhat

Looks  like default X session script is badly configured.

Please try to  locate a Xsession files in your /etc dir:

find /etc -name Xsession

And set correct key in node.cfg, for example:

DefaultXSession “/etc/X11/xinit/Xsession default”

 

[Ceewhat]

Dear reza,

our system admin followed your suggestions:

root:~ # cat /usr/NX/etc/node.cfg | grep DefaultXSession
# DefaultXSession /etc/X11/Xsession
DefaultXSession /etc/X11/xinit/Xsession default
root:~ # find /etc -name Xsession -exec ls -l {} \;
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3563 Aug 17  2010 /etc/X11/xinit/Xsession
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Jul 16  2012 /etc/gdm/Xsession -> ../X11/xinit/Xsession

however, I still get the same error message when trying to use custom session.

any other thoughts?

Thanks!

 

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