VNC won't connect

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I’m stuck, have to be overlooking something silly and hoping to get some help.

I can do a submission on OOD, and it submits the job and starts, but when it goes to start the remote desktop session, it gives “failed to connect to server”

OOD Version: 3.0.3
Host OS: Rocky 9.1

Output.log looks like this:

Setting VNC password...
Starting VNC server...

Desktop 'TurboVNC: hercules-devel-1.hpc.msstate.edu:1 (jhrogers)' started on display hercules-devel-1.hpc.msstate.edu:1

Log file is vnc.log
Successfully started VNC server on hercules-devel-1.hpc.msstate.edu:5901...
Script starting...
Starting websocket server...
The system default contains no modules
  (env var: LMOD_SYSTEM_DEFAULT_MODULES is empty)
  No changes in loaded modules

Launching desktop 'xfce'...
Failed to set property.
Failed to set property.
WebSocket server settings:
  - Listen on :58000
  - No SSL/TLS support (no cert file)
  - Backgrounding (daemon)
Scanning VNC log file for user authentications...
Generating connection YAML file...
/apps/other/ood-depends//xfce-4.18.0/bin/startxfce4: X server already running on display :1
/usr/bin/iceauth:  creating new authority file /run/user/7233/ICEauthority
Terminated
Desktop 'xfce' ended...
Cleaning up...
Killing Xvnc process ID 395436

The top of our ood_portal.yml. The rest is just our SSL/auth info and I can login so that should be fine.

---
servername: Hercules-ood.hpc.msstate.edu
host_regex: '(hercules|Hercules)\-((devel|Devel)\-[12]|[01][0-9]\-[0-6][0-9])\.(hpc|HPC)\.(msstate|MsState)\.(edu|Edu)'
node_uri: '/node'
rnode_uri: '/rnode'
port: 443

From the noVNC Settings on the failed to connect screen:

Shared Mode: Checked
Advanced
>Websocket
>>Encrypt: Checked
>>Host: hercules-ood.hpc.msstate.edu
>>Port: 443
>>Path: rnode/hercules-devel-1.hpc.msstate.edu/58000/websockify

/var/log/messages from hercules-devel-1:

Feb 12 09:46:40 hercules-devel-1 slurmd[3082]: slurmd: debug2: Processing RPC: REQUEST_BATCH_JOB_LAUNCH
Feb 12 09:46:40 hercules-devel-1 slurmd[3082]: slurmd: task/affinity: task_p_slurmd_batch_request: task_p_slurmd_batch_request: 471350
Feb 12 09:46:40 hercules-devel-1 slurmd[3082]: slurmd: debug3: task/affinity: _get_avail_map: slurmctld s 2 c 40; hw s 2 c 40 t 1
Feb 12 09:46:40 hercules-devel-1 slurmd[3082]: slurmd: debug3: task/affinity: _get_avail_map: StepId=471350.batch core mask from slurmctld: 0x00000000000000000001
Feb 12 09:46:40 hercules-devel-1 slurmd[3082]: slurmd: debug3: task/affinity: _get_avail_map: StepId=471350.batch CPU final mask for local node: 0x00000000000000000001
Feb 12 09:46:40 hercules-devel-1 slurmd[3082]: task/affinity: task_p_slurmd_batch_request: task_p_slurmd_batch_request: 471350
Feb 12 09:46:40 hercules-devel-1 slurmd[3082]: slurmd: task/affinity: batch_bind: job 471350 CPU input mask for node: 0x00000000000000000001
Feb 12 09:46:40 hercules-devel-1 slurmd[3082]: slurmd: debug3: task/affinity: _lllp_map_abstract_masks: _lllp_map_abstract_masks
Feb 12 09:46:40 hercules-devel-1 slurmd[3082]: slurmd: task/affinity: batch_bind: job 471350 CPU final HW mask for node: 0x00000000000000000001
Feb 12 09:46:40 hercules-devel-1 slurmd[3082]: slurmd: debug:  Waiting for job 471350's prolog to complete
Feb 12 09:46:40 hercules-devel-1 slurmd[3082]: task/affinity: batch_bind: job 471350 CPU input mask for node: 0x00000000000000000001
Feb 12 09:46:40 hercules-devel-1 slurmd[3082]: task/affinity: batch_bind: job 471350 CPU final HW mask for node: 0x00000000000000000001
Feb 12 09:46:40 hercules-devel-1 slurmd[3082]: slurmd: debug2: prep/script: _run_subpath_command: prolog success rc:0 output:
Feb 12 09:46:40 hercules-devel-1 slurmd[3082]: slurmd: debug3: _spawn_prolog_stepd: call to _forkexec_slurmstepd
Feb 12 09:46:40 hercules-devel-1 slurmd[3082]: slurmd: debug3: slurmstepd rank 0 (hercules-devel-1), parent rank -1 (NONE), children 0, depth 0, max_depth 0
Feb 12 09:46:40 hercules-devel-1 slurmstepd[395332]: select/cons_tres: common_init: select/cons_tres loaded
Feb 12 09:46:40 hercules-devel-1 slurmstepd[395332]: [471350.extern] task/affinity: init: task affinity plugin loaded with CPU mask 0xffffffffffffffffffff
Feb 12 09:46:40 hercules-devel-1 slurmstepd[395332]: [471350.extern] cred/munge: init: Munge credential signature plugin loaded
Feb 12 09:46:40 hercules-devel-1 slurmstepd[395332]: [471350.extern] route/default: init: route default plugin loaded
Feb 12 09:46:40 hercules-devel-1 slurmstepd[395332]: [471350.extern] topology/none: init: topology NONE plugin loaded
Feb 12 09:46:40 hercules-devel-1 slurmstepd[395332]: [471350.extern] task/cgroup: _memcg_initialize: job: alloc=3150MB mem.limit=3150MB memsw.limit=unlimited
Feb 12 09:46:40 hercules-devel-1 slurmstepd[395332]: [471350.extern] task/cgroup: _memcg_initialize: step: alloc=3150MB mem.limit=3150MB memsw.limit=unlimited
Feb 12 09:46:40 hercules-devel-1 slurmd[3082]: slurmd: debug3: _spawn_prolog_stepd: return from _forkexec_slurmstepd 0
Feb 12 09:46:40 hercules-devel-1 slurmd[3082]: slurmd: debug:  Finished wait for job 471350's prolog to complete
Feb 12 09:46:40 hercules-devel-1 slurmd[3082]: slurmd: _get_user_env: get env for user jhrogers here
Feb 12 09:46:40 hercules-devel-1 slurmd[3082]: _get_user_env: get env for user jhrogers here
Feb 12 09:46:40 hercules-devel-1 slurmd[3082]: slurmd: debug2: Finish processing RPC: REQUEST_LAUNCH_PROLOG
Feb 12 09:46:40 hercules-devel-1 su[395337]: (to jhrogers) root on none
Feb 12 09:46:40 hercules-devel-1 systemd[1]: Created slice User Slice of UID 7233.
Feb 12 09:46:40 hercules-devel-1 systemd[1]: Starting User Runtime Directory /run/user/7233...
Feb 12 09:46:40 hercules-devel-1 systemd[1]: Finished User Runtime Directory /run/user/7233.
Feb 12 09:46:40 hercules-devel-1 systemd[1]: Starting User Manager for UID 7233...
Feb 12 09:46:40 hercules-devel-1 systemd[395339]: Queued start job for default target Main User Target.
Feb 12 09:46:40 hercules-devel-1 systemd[395339]: Created slice User Application Slice.
Feb 12 09:46:40 hercules-devel-1 systemd[395339]: Started Mark boot as successful after the user session has run 2 minutes.
Feb 12 09:46:40 hercules-devel-1 systemd[395339]: Started Daily Cleanup of User's Temporary Directories.
Feb 12 09:46:40 hercules-devel-1 systemd[395339]: Reached target Paths.
Feb 12 09:46:40 hercules-devel-1 systemd[395339]: Reached target Timers.
Feb 12 09:46:40 hercules-devel-1 systemd[395339]: Starting D-Bus User Message Bus Socket...
Feb 12 09:46:40 hercules-devel-1 systemd[395339]: Starting Create User's Volatile Files and Directories...
Feb 12 09:46:40 hercules-devel-1 systemd[395339]: Finished Create User's Volatile Files and Directories.
Feb 12 09:46:40 hercules-devel-1 systemd[395339]: Listening on D-Bus User Message Bus Socket.
Feb 12 09:46:40 hercules-devel-1 systemd[395339]: Reached target Sockets.
Feb 12 09:46:40 hercules-devel-1 systemd[395339]: Reached target Basic System.
Feb 12 09:46:40 hercules-devel-1 systemd[395339]: Reached target Main User Target.
Feb 12 09:46:40 hercules-devel-1 systemd[1]: Started User Manager for UID 7233.
Feb 12 09:46:40 hercules-devel-1 systemd[395339]: Startup finished in 61ms.
Feb 12 09:46:40 hercules-devel-1 systemd[1]: Started Session c27 of User jhrogers.
Feb 12 09:46:40 hercules-devel-1 systemd[1]: Starting Hostname Service...
Feb 12 09:46:40 hercules-devel-1 systemd[1]: Started Hostname Service.
Feb 12 09:46:40 hercules-devel-1 systemd[1]: session-c27.scope: Deactivated successfully.
Feb 12 09:46:40 hercules-devel-1 slurmd[3082]: slurmd: Launching batch job 471350 for UID 7233
Feb 12 09:46:40 hercules-devel-1 slurmd[3082]: Launching batch job 471350 for UID 7233
Feb 12 09:46:40 hercules-devel-1 slurmd[3082]: slurmd: debug3: _rpc_batch_job: call to _forkexec_slurmstepd
Feb 12 09:46:40 hercules-devel-1 slurmd[3082]: slurmd: debug3: slurmstepd rank -1 (hercules-devel-1), parent rank -1 (NONE), children 0, depth 0, max_depth 0
Feb 12 09:46:40 hercules-devel-1 slurmstepd[395387]: select/cons_tres: common_init: select/cons_tres loaded
Feb 12 09:46:40 hercules-devel-1 slurmstepd[395387]: [471350.batch] task/affinity: init: task affinity plugin loaded with CPU mask 0xffffffffffffffffffff
Feb 12 09:46:40 hercules-devel-1 slurmstepd[395387]: [471350.batch] cred/munge: init: Munge credential signature plugin loaded
Feb 12 09:46:40 hercules-devel-1 slurmstepd[395387]: [471350.batch] route/default: init: route default plugin loaded
Feb 12 09:46:40 hercules-devel-1 slurmstepd[395387]: [471350.batch] topology/none: init: topology NONE plugin loaded
Feb 12 09:46:40 hercules-devel-1 slurmd[3082]: slurmd: debug3: _rpc_batch_job: return from _forkexec_slurmstepd: 0
Feb 12 09:46:40 hercules-devel-1 slurmd[3082]: slurmd: debug2: Finish processing RPC: REQUEST_BATCH_JOB_LAUNCH
Feb 12 09:46:40 hercules-devel-1 slurmstepd[395387]: [471350.batch] task/cgroup: _memcg_initialize: job: alloc=3150MB mem.limit=3150MB memsw.limit=unlimited
Feb 12 09:46:40 hercules-devel-1 slurmstepd[395387]: [471350.batch] task/cgroup: _memcg_initialize: step: alloc=3150MB mem.limit=3150MB memsw.limit=unlimited
Feb 12 09:46:40 hercules-devel-1 slurmstepd[395387]: [471350.batch] debug levels are stderr='error', logfile='debug4', syslog='debug'
Feb 12 09:46:40 hercules-devel-1 slurmstepd[395387]: [471350.batch] starting 1 tasks
Feb 12 09:46:40 hercules-devel-1 slurmstepd[395387]: [471350.batch] task 0 (395391) started 2024-02-12T09:46:40
Feb 12 09:46:41 hercules-devel-1 systemd[395339]: Starting D-Bus User Message Bus...
Feb 12 09:46:41 hercules-devel-1 dbus-broker-launch[395466]: Policy to allow eavesdropping in /usr/share/dbus-1/session.conf +31: Eavesdropping is deprecated and ignored
Feb 12 09:46:41 hercules-devel-1 dbus-broker-launch[395466]: Policy to allow eavesdropping in /usr/share/dbus-1/session.conf +33: Eavesdropping is deprecated and ignored
Feb 12 09:46:41 hercules-devel-1 systemd[395339]: Started D-Bus User Message Bus.
Feb 12 09:46:41 hercules-devel-1 journal[395466]: Ready
Feb 12 09:46:42 hercules-devel-1 systemd[395339]: Starting Accessibility services bus...
Feb 12 09:46:42 hercules-devel-1 systemd[395339]: Started Accessibility services bus.
Feb 12 09:46:42 hercules-devel-1 at-spi-bus-launcher[395494]: Policy to allow eavesdropping in /usr/share/defaults/at-spi2/accessibility.conf +15: Eavesdropping is deprecated and ignored
Feb 12 09:46:42 hercules-devel-1 at-spi-bus-launcher[395494]: Policy to allow eavesdropping in /usr/share/defaults/at-spi2/accessibility.conf +17: Eavesdropping is deprecated and ignored
Feb 12 09:46:42 hercules-devel-1 journal[395494]: Ready
Feb 12 09:46:42 hercules-devel-1 systemd[395339]: Created slice Slice /app/dbus-:1.8-org.a11y.atspi.Registry.
Feb 12 09:46:42 hercules-devel-1 systemd[395339]: Started dbus-:1.8-org.a11y.atspi.Registry@0.service.
Feb 12 09:46:42 hercules-devel-1 at-spi2-registryd[395499]: SpiRegistry daemon is running with well-known name - org.a11y.atspi.Registry
Feb 12 09:46:50 hercules-devel-1 systemd[1]: Stopping User Manager for UID 7233...
Feb 12 09:46:50 hercules-devel-1 systemd[395339]: Activating special unit Exit the Session...
Feb 12 09:46:50 hercules-devel-1 systemd[395339]: Stopped target Main User Target.
Feb 12 09:46:50 hercules-devel-1 dbus-broker[395495]: Dispatched 19 messages @ 3(±4)μs / message.
Feb 12 09:46:50 hercules-devel-1 systemd[395339]: Stopping Accessibility services bus...
Feb 12 09:46:50 hercules-devel-1 systemd[395339]: Stopping dbus-:1.8-org.a11y.atspi.Registry@0.service...
Feb 12 09:46:50 hercules-devel-1 systemd[395339]: Stopped dbus-:1.8-org.a11y.atspi.Registry@0.service.
Feb 12 09:46:50 hercules-devel-1 systemd[395339]: Removed slice Slice /app/dbus-:1.8-org.a11y.atspi.Registry.
Feb 12 09:46:50 hercules-devel-1 systemd[395339]: Stopped Accessibility services bus.
Feb 12 09:46:50 hercules-devel-1 systemd[395339]: Stopped target Basic System.
Feb 12 09:46:50 hercules-devel-1 systemd[395339]: Stopped target Paths.
Feb 12 09:46:50 hercules-devel-1 systemd[395339]: Stopped target Sockets.
Feb 12 09:46:50 hercules-devel-1 systemd[395339]: Stopped target Timers.
Feb 12 09:46:50 hercules-devel-1 systemd[395339]: Stopped Mark boot as successful after the user session has run 2 minutes.
Feb 12 09:46:50 hercules-devel-1 systemd[395339]: Stopped Daily Cleanup of User's Temporary Directories.
Feb 12 09:46:50 hercules-devel-1 dbus-broker[395467]: Dispatched 291 messages @ 2(±4)μs / message.
Feb 12 09:46:50 hercules-devel-1 systemd[395339]: Stopping D-Bus User Message Bus...
Feb 12 09:46:50 hercules-devel-1 systemd[395339]: Stopped Create User's Volatile Files and Directories.
Feb 12 09:46:50 hercules-devel-1 systemd[395339]: Stopped D-Bus User Message Bus.
Feb 12 09:46:50 hercules-devel-1 systemd[395339]: Closed D-Bus User Message Bus Socket.
Feb 12 09:46:50 hercules-devel-1 systemd[395339]: Removed slice User Application Slice.
Feb 12 09:46:50 hercules-devel-1 systemd[395339]: Reached target Shutdown.
Feb 12 09:46:50 hercules-devel-1 systemd[395339]: Finished Exit the Session.
Feb 12 09:46:50 hercules-devel-1 systemd[395339]: Reached target Exit the Session.
Feb 12 09:46:50 hercules-devel-1 systemd[1]: user@7233.service: Deactivated successfully.
Feb 12 09:46:50 hercules-devel-1 systemd[1]: Stopped User Manager for UID 7233.
Feb 12 09:46:50 hercules-devel-1 systemd[1]: Stopping User Runtime Directory /run/user/7233...
Feb 12 09:46:50 hercules-devel-1 systemd[1]: run-user-7233.mount: Deactivated successfully.
Feb 12 09:46:50 hercules-devel-1 systemd[1]: user-runtime-dir@7233.service: Deactivated successfully.
Feb 12 09:46:50 hercules-devel-1 systemd[1]: Stopped User Runtime Directory /run/user/7233.
Feb 12 09:46:50 hercules-devel-1 systemd[1]: Removed slice User Slice of UID 7233.
Feb 12 09:46:51 hercules-devel-1 slurmstepd[395387]: [471350.batch] task 0 (395391) exited with exit code 0.
Feb 12 09:46:52 hercules-devel-1 slurmstepd[395387]: [471350.batch] job 471350 completed with slurm_rc = 0, job_rc = 0
Feb 12 09:46:52 hercules-devel-1 slurmd[3082]: slurmd: debug3: in the service_connection
Feb 12 09:46:52 hercules-devel-1 slurmstepd[395387]: [471350.batch] done with job
Feb 12 09:46:52 hercules-devel-1 slurmd[3082]: slurmd: debug2: Start processing RPC: REQUEST_TERMINATE_JOB
Feb 12 09:46:52 hercules-devel-1 slurmd[3082]: slurmd: debug2: Processing RPC: REQUEST_TERMINATE_JOB
Feb 12 09:46:52 hercules-devel-1 slurmd[3082]: slurmd: debug:  _rpc_terminate_job: uid = 903 JobId=471350
Feb 12 09:46:52 hercules-devel-1 slurmd[3082]: slurmd: debug:  credential for job 471350 revoked
Feb 12 09:46:52 hercules-devel-1 slurmd[3082]: slurmd: debug4: found StepId=471350.extern
Feb 12 09:46:52 hercules-devel-1 slurmd[3082]: slurmd: debug2: container signal 18 to StepId=471350.extern
Feb 12 09:46:52 hercules-devel-1 slurmstepd[395332]: [471350.extern] Sent signal 18 to StepId=471350.extern
Feb 12 09:46:52 hercules-devel-1 slurmd[3082]: slurmd: debug4: found StepId=471350.extern
Feb 12 09:46:52 hercules-devel-1 slurmd[3082]: slurmd: debug2: container signal 15 to StepId=471350.extern
Feb 12 09:46:52 hercules-devel-1 slurmstepd[395332]: [471350.extern] Sent signal 15 to StepId=471350.extern
Feb 12 09:46:52 hercules-devel-1 slurmd[3082]: slurmd: debug4: sent SUCCESS
Feb 12 09:46:52 hercules-devel-1 slurmd[3082]: slurmd: debug4: found StepId=471350.extern
Feb 12 09:46:52 hercules-devel-1 slurmstepd[395332]: [471350.extern] done with job
Feb 12 09:46:52 hercules-devel-1 slurmd[3082]: slurmd: debug2: set revoke expiration for jobid 471350 to 1707752932 UTS
Feb 12 09:46:52 hercules-devel-1 slurmd[3082]: slurmd: debug:  Waiting for job 471350's prolog to complete
Feb 12 09:46:52 hercules-devel-1 slurmd[3082]: slurmd: debug:  Finished wait for job 471350's prolog to complete
Feb 12 09:46:52 hercules-devel-1 slurmd[3082]: slurmd: debug2: prep/script: _run_subpath_command: epilog success rc:0 output:
Feb 12 09:46:52 hercules-devel-1 slurmd[3082]: slurmd: debug:  completed epilog for jobid 471350
Feb 12 09:46:52 hercules-devel-1 slurmd[3082]: slurmd: debug:  JobId=471350: sent epilog complete msg: rc = 0
Feb 12 09:46:52 hercules-devel-1 slurmd[3082]: slurmd: debug2: Finish processing RPC: REQUEST_TERMINATE_JOB
Feb 12 09:47:10 hercules-devel-1 systemd[1]: systemd-hostnamed.service: Deactivated successfully.
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Extra Info:

testing reverse proxy works:

$ nc -l 5432
GET /node/hercules-devel-1.hpc.msstate.edu/5432 HTTP/1.1
Host: hercules-devel-1.hpc.msstate.edu:5432
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/115.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br
DNT: 1
Cookie: MOD_AUTH_CAS_S=d36c0c0f24acbfa6f4e187ae52dad06e
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1
Sec-Fetch-Dest: document
Sec-Fetch-Mode: navigate
Sec-Fetch-Site: none
Sec-Fetch-User: ?1
X-Forwarded-Proto: https
X-Forwarded-User: jhrogers
X-Forwarded-Escaped-Uri: %2fnode%2fhercules-devel-1.hpc.msstate.edu%2f5432
X-Forwarded-For: 130.18.14.241
X-Forwarded-Host: hercules-ood.hpc.msstate.edu
X-Forwarded-Server: Hercules-ood.hpc.msstate.edu
Connection: close

The console error in firefox from a failed session:

Firefox can’t establish a connection to the server at wss://hercules-ood.hpc.msstate.edu/rnode/hercules-devel-1.hpc.msstate.edu/32434/websockify.
WebSocket on-error event
Failed when connecting: Connection closed (code: 1006)
>_fail https://hercules-ood.hpc.msstate.edu/pun/sys/dashboard/noVNC-1.3.0/core/rfb.js:831
>_socketClose https://hercules-ood.hpc.msstate.edu/pun/sys/dashboard/noVNC-1.3.0/core/rfb.js:581
>onclose https://hercules-ood.hpc.msstate.edu/pun/sys/dashboard/noVNC-1.3.0/core/websock.js:262
3

So I don’t know if you noticed this, but this part sticks out to me:

/apps/other/ood-depends//xfce-4.18.0/bin/startxfce4: X server already running on display :1

By checking the output.log for the system id folder, I can see output like this:

WARNING: o0007.ten.osc.edu:1 is taken because of /tmp/.X1-lock
Remove this file if there is no X server o0007.ten.osc.edu:1
Killing Xvnc process ID 26799
Xvnc process ID 26799 already killed
Xvnc did not appear to shut down cleanly. Removing /tmp/.X11-unix/X1
Xvnc did not appear to shut down cleanly. Removing /tmp/.X1-lock

So it seems like there should be an .X1-lock file, and there isn’t one for some reason.

So it might help to check ps output to see if someone has already started an x server on display 1 and try to find out why it didn’t create a lock file for it.

4

More info.

It’s something related to xfconfd startup.

Manually SSH’d into that box, ran the sequence of commands in

/var/www/ood/apps/sys/bc_desktop/template/desktops/xfce.sh

which is default, with some path adjustments in the top:

export BASE="/apps/other/ood-depends/"
export PATH="$BASE/websockify-0.11.0/bin/:$BASE/xfce-4.18.0/bin:$BASE/xfce-4.18.0/sbin:$BASE/turbovnc-3.1.1/bin:$BASE/nmap-7.94/bin:$BASE/nmap-7.94/contrib/bin:$PATH"
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$BASE/websockify-0.11.0/lib:$BASE/xfce-4.18.0/lib:$BASE/xfce-4.18.0/contrib/lib64:$BASE/turbovnc-3.1.1/contrib/lib64:$BASE/nmap-7.94:$BASE/nmap-7.94/contrib/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"
export XDG_CONFIG_DIRS="$BASE/xfce-4.18.0/etc:$XDG_CONFIG_DIRS"

# Remove any preconfigured monitors
if [[ -f "${HOME}/.config/monitors.xml" ]]; then
  mv "${HOME}/.config/monitors.xml" "${HOME}/.config/monitors.xml.bak"
fi

# Copy over default panel if doesn't exist, otherwise it will prompt the user
PANEL_CONFIG="${HOME}/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-panel.xml"
if [[ ! -e "${PANEL_CONFIG}" ]]; then
  mkdir -p "$(dirname "${PANEL_CONFIG}")"
  cp "$BASE/xfce-4.18.0/etc/xdg/xfce4/panel/default.xml" "${PANEL_CONFIG}"
fi
unset $BASE

then ran

/apps/other/ood-depends/xfce-4.18.0/lib/xfce4/xfconf/xfconfd &

and I can request a session and it works. I copied all but the launch line in that script to a test.sh, put it in another user’s folder, and had them run that script, then the xfconfd & command, and request a session. That worked for them too.

So it’s failing to start xfconfd on the remote host. I’m not sure where I go from there.

5

I can confirm there isn’t any other x apps running. My other info comment about xconfd i think has a lot of info that’s leading in the right direction, i just haven’t figured out how to fix it yet.

6

I figured out a work-around.

In /var/www/ood/apps/sys/bc_desktop/template/desktops/xfce.sh

I changed the end of the file to force start xfonfd before starting the session

# xfconfd
/apps/other/ood-depends/xfce-4.18.0/lib/xfce4/xfconf/xfconfd &

# Start up xfce desktop (block until user logs out of desktop)
xfce4-session
#startxfce4