CentOS 5 :: Autostart Rdesktop 1.60 Failure Using Sessions GUI
Oct 1, 2009
I am trying to build a fat client on an old pc. I have CentOS 5.3 installed standalone. Basically when the user turns on the pc, it automatically logs into a linux account and the desktop appears. I have installed rdesktop 1.60 to connect to a Win2008 server. From the command line or from a launcher icon I created on the linux desktop everything works fine. What I want to do is for the system to automatically execute rdesktop after the automatic login to linux. So I used the Sessions GUI. (Go to System, then Preferences, then More preference, then Sessions.) Within the Sessions GUI, I clicked on the "Startup Programs" tab and click on the "Add' button.
I type in :
rdesktop -f servername (where -f gives you full screen, and servername is the name of the windows server)
This works a couple of times, then it fails. When you reboot the linux pc, it will auto login, then show the rdesktop screen for a split second, disappears and then it shows the linux gnome desktop.
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Sep 14, 2009
I installed rdesktop with yum from the centos "base" repo. I assumed it would then automnatically appear in the gnome and/or kde menus - but I haven't found it so far. Am I looking in the wrong place - or do I have to install it in the menus somehow? If so - where do I find instructions on doing this?
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May 27, 2009
usually i run the file with
1. open the terminal (log in as root)
2. then just write sh Start-ServiceEngine from the folder it self.
i try to make auto start with this way :
1. create file in /etc/init.d/ name blah
[blah]
#! /bin/sh
sh /root/service-engine/Start-ServiceEngine
exit
[/blah]
2. changing the mod : chmod 755 /etc/init.d/blah but when i restart the centOs it seem run but with error on my program.
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Jan 1, 2011
CentOS 5.5, I've installed Synergy to share my keyboard/mouse and it works fine. Now I'm trying to get it to load automatically at boot.
The command is simple, "synergyc <computername>".
I've tried putting the command (see above) into rc.local I've tried putting the command in a script and referencing in in rc.local I've followed the instructions for building it into init levels (2-5) with chkconfig
Quote:chkconfig --list
synergy.sh 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
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I have a new CentOS 5.6 installation. It was installed in text mode. I have changed the line id:3:initdefault: in /etc/inittab to id:5:inittab. Even after that change, gdm does not start automatically. gdm is installed, and can be started from the command line. I have put DISPLAYMANAGER="GNOME" and DESKTOP="GNOME" in /etc/sysconfig/desktop.
I would like to get gdm to start automatically.
I observer that rhgb is running after startup:
[root@host ~]# ps axu |grep rhgb
root 3830 0.0 0.0 165676 10816 ? Ss 12:10 0:00 /usr/bin/rhgb
root 3840 0.0 0.0 87976 7996 tty8 Ss+ 12:10 0:07 /usr/bin/Xorg -s off
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Jan 28, 2010
I am fairly new to linux.We have a machine running CentOS 4.4 and sometimes the machine has to be rebooted. Each time after the reboot, I have to SSH in and manually restart one of our application. I have been reading about doing this online and I am a little confuse.Seems like there are multiple possibilities for starting things up. My finding suggest using the inittab file. Then my question is what runlevel do I pass in? Should I use runlevel 1, 2, 3, or 5? Once the runlevel is determine, then how should I name my startup script? I know to use "S" but what number should I give it? Or, another way to approach this is to put my autostart script in the /etc/rc.local file?
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Mar 2, 2009
I'm setting up my CentOS server and I'm having issue with the VNC server. I've set up xinetd services for connections all of which work individually bringing me to a login window. But only one will work at a time. If I kill the process or if I click the disconnect button I can make a new one but as they are terminal sessions (using wait) I wanted to be able to leave one logged in and have the option of another connection if I wanted to log on a different user.
Can someone help with the setting which would be to allow more than one connection? I know if you setup permanent session paths in vncserver this should work but (and I'm sure this has worked for me in the past) the xinetd method is supposed to open up sessions as required. I am working from a write-up for doing this in Ubuntu and aside from odd path differences the only noticeable change is the guide uses vnc4server rather than vncserver that comes pre-installed on CentOS. Should that matter?
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I'm running VNC Server on CentOS5 on a brand new installation, this is for some of my students to use specific software via VNC on their machines from home that they otherwise don't have access to on their Windows machines. This has been working fine on our previous server for a few years but the hardware is now outdated so I have upgraded and put a fresh install of CentOS 5 on. This works fine for about 24 hours and then eventually one of the session ends up freezing where the user then can see everything on their session, the cursor can move but they cant click a single thing.
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Nov 6, 2009
1. One of my hdds failed (sda) in software raid 1. I rma'd the hdd to western digital and got another one. Now do I have to format it before putting it in my centos server? If yes, how do I format?
2. Also since sda drive failed, I gotta mark sda as failed in raid. Then remove the sda hdd, and pop in the new hdd for sda? Or do I switch sdb to sda and put the new hdd in sdb's place?
3. After that add it to raid correct, then once raid rebuilds I have to do grub? Can grub be done via ssh only? or do I need to be at the datacenter or get kvm?
4. Last question, I've got a supermicro hotswap hdd case, so do I need to shutdown server while I replace the hdd's? I just want to be sure I do this correctly.
The following is the guide that I will be using, please look at it and let me know if that is the correct procedure: [URL]. Another thing, when the hdd (sda) failed I put it back into raid, but the hdd has bad sectors that is why m replacing it.
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Just tried updating 5.2 to 5.3; using both pup and yum, and both get the same error:
Error: Missing Dependency: libgpod.so.0 is needed by package rhythmbox
If I remove rhythmbox (I don't use it on this machine) the upgrade works, but I thought I'd post in case someone wanted to take a look at it.
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At 4:00 pm on 4/1/2009 I accepted the offer to dowload and install a number of small improvements. This has always worked in the past. This time there were a few problems with the install, but I went ahead and rebooted. It stopped at grub, stage2.
I am now trying the rescue feature of my install CD. I will report on this later.
As for the always possible hardware failure, I have a raid setup, so I was not expecting this.
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I had a power failure the other day and my server shutdown abruptly. After bringing the server up I noticed that the /var partition came up as read only. I was not able to edit the crontab, not able to write to files within /var/log/ and do other write operations within /var.
I did a mount and it showed that /var was mounted read and write but when trying to run certain operations the system was still saying that it was read only.
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Following scenario: My server in some data center on a different continent with two disks and software raid 1.
One day I see that a disk failed (for example with /proc/mdstat). Of course I should replace the failed disk asap. Now that I think about it, I am not sure how. What should my email to the data center support guy mention to make sure that guy doesn't replace the wrong disk?
With hardware RAID it is very easy, because the controller usually has some kind of red LED indicator. But what about software raid?
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i installed a new centos 5.5 1 old server hp ml380 g3 series on 2gb ram, 72gb raid 1+0 scsi disk
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Before to describe my problem I want to say that I searched a lot on the internet and I think I tried all the solutions provided by other users to similar problems.
I've got an IBM xSeries 346 server running CentOS 5.5 with all updates applied with yum.
The video card is an ATI Radeon (lspci says: 01:06.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV100 QY [Radeon 7000/VE]).
Everything worked fine until a bad day where there was an environmental power failure and the server crashed.
I turned it on, I manually check the file system, some files went lost and after the reboot the X server didn't start.
After the first boot I had problem with /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit, sbin/multipath.static and /dev/cpu/microcode, I solved them and now the message it shows is:
"Failed to start the X server (your graphical interface) It is likely that it is not set up correctly. Would you like to view the X server output to diagnose the problem?"
I choose OK and it appears an empty log, if I go in /var/log/gdm and I do an ls -al:
total 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 28 04:44 :0.log.4
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 28 04:44 :0.log.3
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 29 04:52 :0.log.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 29 04:52 :0.log.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 29 04:52 :0.log
So a lot of empty log files.
I press enter on the OK that appears at the bottom of the screen and it says: Would you like to try to configure the X server?
I choose Yes, I enter the root password and appears the following messages:
Couldn't start X server on card 0
Couldn't start X server with old config, trying with a fresh configuration
Then another messages:
Trying to restart the X server, I press enter on OK and it loops the initial message ("Failed to start the X server...)
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Apr 28, 2009
I've just setup a new centos 5.3 server with a 3-disc raid 5 software RAID array. I've setup other software raid 5 arrays on this same hardware, whilst testing, and had no trouble... I only just installed 3 new drives and performed a new install from scratch.
Hardware is: 4800XP X2 64-bit, 2GB RAM, Albatron KI-690G mainboard with Marvel SATA controller (I think) - 4 ports.
SATA port 0 is system drive (OCZ vertex 32GB SSD)
SATA port 1 is Western Digital "green" 1TB 8MB cache SATA 2
SATA port 2 is Western Digital "green" 1TB 8MB cache SATA 2
SATA port 3 is Western Digital "green" 1TB 8MB cache SATA 2
Ports 1-3 in software raid MD0 (raid 5)
All of this was configured in the GUI setup, with LVM on top of software RAID 5 mounted on /var. Partition size is ~1.9TB
Trouble is I get all sorts of "hardware failure" messages at bootup and the MD driver reports it was only able to bring up 2 out of 3 drives in the RAID set... however the RAID set formatted fine during the setup?
Here is the relevent dmesg output...
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I managed to trim the final ISO down to 290MB but I need it around 100MB and if possible 50MB.
I do want to keep the ability to do "sudo apt-get install openoffice" in the future though....
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Code:
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I'm trying to get the sound from my Win7 box over to my FC13 box while using rdesktop. I'm using the "-r sound:remote" option to get the sound to stay with my Win7 box (gotta listen to my tunes while I work). I've tried other sound:* options (local, alsa, oss) all with no luck. I know sound works on my FC13 box as I've hooked up some speakers to test. I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction for something else I could be missing, I'm trying to convert from Windows, so be gentle. btw - I've also tried tsclient with the same result. so I'm thinking *something* is missing, but not really sure what to check for. I have to be missing *something* here. When I RDP from another Windows machine to my Win7 box, the sound works fine, just doesn't work when I try from my FC13 box to my Win7 box? Here is some additional details, I can provide the output of alsa-info.sh if that may help as well.
rpm -qa rdesktop
rdesktop-1.6.0-7.fc12.x86_64
rpm -qa alsa*
alsa-firmware-1.0.23-1.fc13.noarch
alsa-oss-1.0.17-4.fc12.x86_64
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