rpm install on centos 5.4

[Jordan Gray]

I just wanted to note my experience installing neatx on Centos 5.4. I
also have some questions that resulted from my installation.

Centos 5 is still using pygtk2 2.10 and pygobject 2.12. It was
painless to rebuild a fedora src rpm of pygobject 2.14, but for pygtk2
I modified the extras/rpm/neatx.spec to accept my pygtk2 2.10

I was able to follow the rpm build instructions from INSTALL, except
that I had to use the path /usr/src/redhat/instead of ~<user>/
rpmbuild/

After installation of the package, there were a few issues.

First, I notice that the neatx.spec attempts to create the nx user..
In my case, I already had an nx user from my previous install of
freenx, so I had to manually create the /var/lib/neatx directory and
set the nx user's home directory correctly.

Second, I had to create my own /var/lib/neatx/sessions directory--it
doesn't seem that the neatx.spec handles that part. Does the sessions
directory automatically get when the first user connects? If so, it
may have been that I didn't initially have the permissions set
correctly on the /var/lib/neatx directory.

My mods to neatx.conf to get it running:
netcat-path = /usr/bin/nc # was /bin/netcat
xsession-path = /etc/X11/xinit/Xsession # was /etc/X11/Xsession

I can start a new session, suspend, reconnect, and terminate. Shadow
doesn't work for me...

When I try to shadow my running session, client hangs at requesting
user authorization, and ultimately times out:

On the client side:
NX> 105 Attachsession --link="wan" --backingstore="1" --
encryption="1" --cache="128m" --images="512m" --defer="0" --shmem="1"
--shpix="1" --strict="0" --composite="1" --media="0" --session="local
%20centos%20server" --type="shadow" --client="winnt" --keyboard="pc102/
en_us" --id="07cca0745eb1b75c8e081c6e660139bc" --display="159" --
geometry="1274x747" --resize="1"
NX> 500 Session didn't become ready in time
NX> 280 Exiting on signal: 15

On the server end
Feb 6 12:13:59 fig nxnode[8190]: INFO nxnode:81 Received request:
'attach', [{'session': 'local%20centos%20server', 'defer': '0',
'shpix': '1', 'strict': '0', 'composite': '1', 'encryption': '1',
'cache': '128M', 'display': '159', 'geometry': '1274x747',
'backingstore': '1', 'client': 'winnt', 'link': 'wan', 'shmem': '1',
'media': '0', 'images': '512M', 'keyboard': 'pc102/en_US', 'type':
'shadow', 'id': '07CCA0745EB1B75C8E081C6E660139BC', 'resize': '1'},
'C98BA328B707768838C0B396859FA4B0']
Feb 6 12:13:59 fig nxnode[8190]: INFO node:290 Starting xauth for [(':
993', '7D66F73EE5530DDF99BCF8E93BEC15B7'), ('localhost:993',
'7D66F73EE5530DDF99BCF8E93BEC15B7'), (':159',
'C98BA328B707768838C0B396859FA4B0'), ('localhost:159',
'C98BA328B707768838C0B396859FA4B0')]
Feb 6 12:13:59 fig nxnode[8190]: INFO daemon:491 Starting program,
executable=None, args=['/usr/bin/xauth', '-f', '/var/lib/neatx/
sessions/FCB2D2B4D719EA0AC1750979723C8A8F/authority']
Feb 6 12:13:59 fig nxnode[8190]: INFO daemon:519 Child /usr/bin/
xauth[8193] started
Feb 6 12:13:59 fig nxserver[8180]: INFO nxserver:594 Waiting for
session 'FCB2D2B4D719EA0AC1750979723C8A8F' to achieve waiting status
Feb 6 12:13:59 fig nxnode[8190]: INFO node:325 Starting nxagent
Feb 6 12:13:59 fig nxnode-wrapper[8188]: Traceback (most recent call
last):
Feb 6 12:13:59 fig nxnode-wrapper[8188]: File "/usr/lib/python2.4/
site-packages/neatx/node.py", line 309, in __XAuthDone
Feb 6 12:13:59 fig nxnode-wrapper[8188]: self.__StartNxAgent()
Feb 6 12:13:59 fig nxnode-wrapper[8188]: File "/usr/lib/python2.4/
site-packages/neatx/node.py", line 340, in __StartNxAgent
Feb 6 12:13:59 fig nxnode-wrapper[8188]: self.__nxagent.Start()
Feb 6 12:13:59 fig nxnode-wrapper[8188]: File "/usr/lib/python2.4/
site-packages/neatx/agent.py", line 258, in Start
Feb 6 12:13:59 fig nxnode-wrapper[8188]:
self._UpdateOptionsFile()
Feb 6 12:13:59 fig nxnode-wrapper[8188]: File "/usr/lib/python2.4/
site-packages/neatx/agent.py", line 609, in _UpdateOptionsFile
Feb 6 12:13:59 fig nxnode-wrapper[8188]:
self._WriteOptionsFile(self._GetOptions())
Feb 6 12:13:59 fig nxnode-wrapper[8188]: File "/usr/lib/python2.4/
site-packages/neatx/agent.py", line 620, in _WriteOptionsFile
Feb 6 12:13:59 fig nxnode-wrapper[8188]:
self.__CheckOptsChars(opts)
Feb 6 12:13:59 fig nxnode-wrapper[8188]: File "/usr/lib/python2.4/
site-packages/neatx/agent.py", line 639, in __CheckOptsChars
Feb 6 12:13:59 fig nxnode-wrapper[8188]:
self.__CheckStrChars(value, "Value of option %r (%r)" % (name, value))
Feb 6 12:13:59 fig nxnode-wrapper[8188]: File "/usr/lib/python2.4/
site-packages/neatx/agent.py", line 652, in __CheckStrChars
Feb 6 12:13:59 fig nxnode-wrapper[8188]: if c in s:
Feb 6 12:13:59 fig nxnode-wrapper[8188]: TypeError: iterable argument
required
Feb 6 12:14:30 fig nxserver[8180]: ERROR nxserver:600 Session
FCB2D2B4D719EA0AC1750979723C8A8F has not achieved waiting status
within 30 seconds
Feb 6 12:14:30 fig nxserver-login[8170]: INFO auth:142 Waiting for
authenticated program to finish

I would appreciate any thoughts.

Thanks

--Jordan

[Jordan Gray]

Regarding my problem shadowing, I followed the suggestion/fix below in
order to eliminate the problem.

http://groups.google.com/group/neatx/browse_thread/thread/98a2753127fd7875

--Jordan

[Stephen Shirley]

On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 19:22, Jordan Gray <jordan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> First, I notice that the neatx.spec attempts to create the nx user..
> In my case, I already had an nx user from my previous install of
> freenx, so I had to manually create the /var/lib/neatx directory and
> set the nx user's home directory correctly.
>
> Second, I had to create my own /var/lib/neatx/sessions directory--it
> doesn't seem that the neatx.spec handles that part.  Does the sessions
> directory automatically get when the first user connects?  If so, it
> may have been that I didn't initially have the permissions set
> correctly on the /var/lib/neatx directory.

Something didn't go quite right there. This should take care of
creating the /var/lib/neatx directory tree:
http://code.google.com/p/neatx/source/browse/trunk/neatx/extras/rpm/neatx.spec#54
as the neatx Makefile does that sort of thing. I'm guessing you have
an older version of autoconf/automake or such that behaves slightly
differently.

> My mods to neatx.conf to get it running:
> netcat-path = /usr/bin/nc # was /bin/netcat
> xsession-path = /etc/X11/xinit/Xsession # was /etc/X11/Xsession

These should be fixed by a patch i have out for review. Thanks for the
reminder re: xsession path, i'd missed that.

Steve
--
"You are technically correct, the best kind of correct."
- Bureaucrat 1.0, Futurama

[Jordan Gray]

Thanks, that cleared it up. Also, I tried installing r53, and now
netcat, the xsession path, and the sessions directory are all properly
configured.

For those of you who want to duplicate my installation of neatx on
centos, I used the EPEL repo for obtaining the rpmdevtools package.
For pygobject2, I used the pygobject2-2.14 src rpm from Fedora 9
(rpmbuilder --rebuild ./pygobject2-2.14.1-2.fc9.src.rpm). Then I just
followed the rpm instructions in the INSTALL file of neatx.

--Jordan

On Feb 9, 5:17 pm, Stephen Shirley <kor...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 19:22, Jordan Gray <jordan.d.g...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > First, I notice that the neatx.spec attempts to create the nx user..
> > In my case, I already had an nx user from my previous install of
> > freenx, so I had to manually create the /var/lib/neatx directory and
> > set the nx user's home directory correctly.
>
> > Second, I had to create my own /var/lib/neatx/sessions directory--it
> > doesn't seem that the neatx.spec handles that part.  Does the sessions
> > directory automatically get when the first user connects?  If so, it
> > may have been that I didn't initially have the permissions set
> > correctly on the /var/lib/neatx directory.
>
> Something didn't go quite right there. This should take care of

> creating the /var/lib/neatx directory tree:http://code.google.com/p/neatx/source/browse/trunk/neatx/extras/rpm/n...