[winswitch] HTML start-desktop crash

[Antoine Martin]

On 13/02/17 16:51, Berdonces Bonelo, Erik via shifter-users wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I’m sending it back to this mail, because seems I got a migration in my inbox and I didn’t receive the answer back (no worries, I read it in the online mailman archive), plus I got a new mail address.
> 
> On the desktop size the answers helped a lot, and now I’ve been able to run it in Ubuntu 16.04 after uninstalling VirtualBox additions and configuring my screen size.
Removing VirtualBox additions will work but it's a little bit drastic,
disabling the clipboard synchronization in your VM settings should be
enough.

> However, I’ve tried to repeat the same process in Ubuntu 14.04, installing the latest version from WinSwitch repository and I’m having some troubles. As it seems it can’t create the socket, even if the .xpra folder gets set a 777 chmod and ubuntu is part of the Xpra group of users.
> 
> Errors are as it follows:
> 
> ubuntu at machine86ec8863-384b-4baf-af76-aadfbefd4400:~$ xpra start --bind-tcp=0.0.0.0:14500 --html=on --no-daemon
(snip)
> Using display number provided by Xvfb: :0
> Xlib:  extension "RANDR" missing on display ":0".
> Xlib:  extension "RANDR" missing on display ":0".
> 2017-02-13 09:46:02,017 Error: failed to create socket '/home/ubuntu/.xpra/machine86ec8863-384b-4baf-af76-aadfbefd4400-0':
> 2017-02-13 09:46:02,017  [Errno 1] Operation not permitted: '/home/ubuntu/.xpra/machine86ec8863-384b-4baf-af76-aadfbefd4400-0'
> xpra initialization error:
>  failed to create socket /home/ubuntu/.xpra/machine86ec8863-384b-4baf-af76-aadfbefd4400-0
> 2017-02-13 09:46:02,018 closing TCP socket 0.0.0.0:14500
> 2017-02-13 09:46:02,018 killing xvfb with pid 5842
> ubuntu at machine86ec8863-384b-4baf-af76-aadfbefd4400:~$ umask
> 0002
> 
> This is in a plain Ubuntu Server 14.04 and installing the latest version of xPra and with default configuration.
I'm not seeing this problem at all on Ubuntu 14.04. You may want to
retry with xpra 1.0.3

If that doesn't help then I suspect that your setup is different in some
crucial way. NFS home perhaps?

You can try creating the unix domain sockets in different places until
you figure out the ones that work and the ones that don't:
xpra start --bind=/tmp/
Or even:
xpra start --bind=/tmp/TESTSOCKETFILENAME

> I can run the command with sudo, but then,  it complains that it misses the dbus, websockify and many other packages.
The list of *packages* will be identical for both users, and the
websockify library should be accessible in both cases.
It may not be able to reach the dbus *server* however, if you don't
start one. This should not be fatal for xpra, though it may be required
by other desktop applications.

> If I try to install them by hand, it says they are already installed. So, I’m not sure what’s happening that xPra can’t detect the dependencies are already installed..
> 
> These two things were the ones crashing xPra previously as I see (now running in non-daemon mode seems to keep it running, but still can’t run it in HTML mode and I get lots of warnings)
The websockify package in Ubuntu 14.04 is probably too old.

If you are unable to use a newer distribution version, you should be
able to upgrade the websockify package manually.

Cheers
Antoine


> 
> Thanks!
> Best regards,
> 
> Erik Berdonces Bonelo
> 
> 
> On Feb 8, 2017, at 5:42 PM, Berdonces Bonelo, Erik <erik.berdoncesbonelo at tu-berlin.de<mailto:erik.berdoncesbonelo at tu-berlin.de>> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I’m trying to run a full desktop (I have tried KDE and Unity so far), in order to manage remotely a server.
> At the moment I have this running as a VM in VirtualBox  + VBox Addons in my computer (I hope it isn’t this interfering somehow…). I’ve been trying with Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 16.04, Kubuntu 16.04 and CentOS 7. In all of them I’ve installed the latest release from the Winswitch repository (at the moment 1.0.2).
> 
> Anyways, whenever I start an xpra session,  either if I start it from the client or HTML5 client, the transmitted desktop is a window that is much larger than my actual physical screen, and I can’t even resize it down. I’ve tried with the –desktop-scaling option, but it has no effect.
> 
> Also, I’ve tried to use different desktops (kde, gnome and unity), and to disconnect my physical second screen from my laptop. If I start a simple program as xterm, there are no problems, it’s the proper size. However, doing so with a desktop, it just won’t work.
> 
> Any suggestions on this? I’ve gone through all the xpra manual, but I might have overlooked a setting. Otherwise I don’t know if it can be a bug maybe…
> 
> Thanks a lot, and of course, thanks a lot for your great work and for this tool!
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Erik berdonces
> 
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