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Hi,

Well, I have done quite some work.

The xkbcomp issue I've been seeing seems to be normal - other machines be=
have
the same. It was a missing directory (keymaps.dir) in /usr/share/X11/xkb =
on my
x86_64 machine that prevented xkbcomp from being called and a root-non-ro=
ot
issue regarding the file location (/var/tmp/server-$DISPLAYNO.xkm vs.
compiled/server-$DISPLAYNO.xkm.)

Alas, none of these were critical or actually had any influence on the X =
server
as such. Both machines produces the same messages. So xkb was totally the=
 wrong
thing to look at.

I have then compiled with even more debug info in nxproxy and nxagent to =
see
whether the problem is in the connection part between two machines.

I even straced the nxagent/x2goagent process to get some useful informati=
on out
of there. After going through a several megabytes big strace file, I ende=
d up
seeing that both ppc64 and x86_64 are behaving the same establishing the
connection and everything is functional. Bummer, nothing on that front ei=
ther.

There's no indication of what may be wrong. Not even with nxagent (being =
the X
server itself) compiled with -DDEBUG -DDEBUG_CMD -DNX_TRANS_TEST. This pr=
oduces
quite a lot of messages every once in a place, but there's nothing regard=
ing
being unable to create/show windows.

Not even starting another application from a shell via
DISPLAY=3D:<current-sessions-display-number> xeyes bring's anything to li=
ght.

At least X clients (programs) and server are constantly exchanging inform=
ation,
so the missing window issue must be nested deep within the X server itsel=
f.

However, I have no idea where to look.

To make matters worse, attaching gdb to nxagent during normal operation i=
s quite
impossible. As soon as nxagent is stopped for single-stepping through fun=
ctions
and examining variables/code in detail, the (remote) nxproxy client will =
get a
timeout as it's not able to communicate with the agent anymore (well, sur=
e,
we've just been stopping that for debugging...) and close the connection.=


Pretty much the only way possible is print-debugging in the code.

I could live with that, had I at least any idea of where the problem coul=
d be.

Maybe finding the code drawing/creating a window would be interesting.

---

In other news, I can report that outgoing connections via x2goclient are =
working
just fine. I've been connecting to my ionic.de machine in order to start =
a
simple xterm from the ppc64 box and that worked flawlessly. How wouldn't =
it, as
"this way 'round" doesn't use the very old X server distributed with NX, =
but
actually the recent, known-to-work X server as shipped with Fedora.

Thus, it's really just a server-side issue.


Mihai


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