problem on remote access

[satimis]

Hi all,

Server
Ubuntu 12.04 desktop 64bit
openssh-server installed

Local PC
Ubuntu 12.04 desktop 64bit
openssh-client installed


$ ssh -X satimis@192.168.0.11
$ gnome-session > gnome-session

Warning

** (gnome-settings-daemon:24731): WARNING **: You can only run one xsettings manager at a time; exiting

** (gnome-settings-daemon:24731): WARNING **: Unable to start xsettings manager: Could not initialize xsettings manager.
compiz (core) - Error: Screen 0 on display "localhost:10.0" already has a window manager; try using the --replace option to replace the current window manager.
Failed to play sound: Not available
** Message: applet now removed from the notification area
** Message: using fallback from indicator to GtkStatusIcon

(gnome-settings-daemon:24731): keyboard-plugin-WARNING **: Failed to set the keyboard layouts: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.Accounts.Error.PermissionDenied: Not authorized

** (gnome-settings-daemon:24731): WARNING **: Failed to connect context: Connection refused

(gnome-settings-daemon:24731): clipboard-plugin-WARNING **: Clipboard manager is already running.

(gnome-settings-daemon:24731): color-plugin-WARNING **: failed to create device: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.ColorManager.Failed: failed to obtain org.freedesktop.color-manager.create-device auth

(gnome-settings-daemon:24731): color-plugin-WARNING **: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.ColorManager.Failed: failed to obtain org.freedesktop.color-manager.create-profile auth

(gnome-settings-daemon:24731): color-plugin-WARNING **: no xrandr-Philips Consumer Electronics Company-Philips 200W-BZ1063822605 device found: Failed to find output xrandr-Philips Consumer Electronics Company-Philips 200W-BZ1063822605

** (gnome-settings-daemon:24731): WARNING **: Failed to connect context: Connection refused
Connection failure: Connection refused
pa_context_connect() failed: Connection refused
^C** Message: PID 0 (we are 24763) sent signal 2, shutting down...


(gnome-settings-daemon:24731): color-plugin-WARNING **: failed to create device:
 GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.ColorManager.Failed: failed to obtain org.freedeskt
op.color-manager.create-device auth

(gnome-settings-daemon:24731): color-plugin-WARNING **: GDBus.Error:org.free[0/42]
top.ColorManager.Failed: failed to obtain org.freedesktop.color-manager.create-p
rofile auth

(gnome-settings-daemon:24731): color-plugin-WARNING **: no xrandr-Philips Consum
er Electronics Company-Philips 200W-BZ1063822605 device found: Failed to find ou
tput xrandr-Philips Consumer Electronics Company-Philips 200W-BZ1063822605

** (gnome-settings-daemon:24731): WARNING **: Failed to connect context: Connect
ion refused
Connection failure: Connection refused
pa_context_connect() failed: Connection refused
^C** Message: PID 0 (we are 24763) sent signal 2, shutting down...

satimis@localhost:~$ ** Message: PID 24763 (we are 24763) sent signal 15, shutti
ng down...

(nm-applet:24763): libappindicator-WARNING **: Unable to send signal for NewStat
us: The connection is closed
** Message: moving back from GtkStatusIcon to indicator

(nm-applet:24763): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_status_icon_set_visible: assertion `GTK_
IS_STATUS_ICON (status_icon)' failed
^C

$ cat gnome-session

GNOME_KEYRING_CONTROL=/tmp/keyring-mfg24m
SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/keyring-mfg24m/ssh
GNOME_KEYRING_PID=24727
GNOME_KEYRING_CONTROL=/tmp/keyring-mfg24m
SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/keyring-mfg24m/ssh
GNOME_KEYRING_CONTROL=/tmp/keyring-mfg24m
SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/keyring-mfg24m/ssh
GPG_AGENT_INFO=/tmp/keyring-mfg24m/gpg:0:1
Initializing nautilus-gdu extension
Shutting down nautilus-gdu extension
g_dbus_connection_real_closed: Remote peer vanished with error: Underlying GIOStream returned 0 bytes on an async read (g-io-error-quark, 0). Exiting.

However I can start xterm

Please help.

B.R.
satimis

[Miven]

You're trying to run a full blown gnome-session from another PC?

I just tried ssh into another PC running gnome, rxvt works fine through ssh.

If I type

# X :1 -terminate -once &

it fires up a new X server, blue screen and fugly X cursor, on top of the gnome-session already running on that box. Not much use, and not quite what I was expecting. Ctrl-Alt-Backspace on that PC and she's back to her session. Good. I kinda scared myself there.

# gnome-session

however, get's me a gnome-session on my PC with all my wife's gnome desktop stuff, but my apps and workspaces and stuff. I run Icewm. Her PC is now running pedal-to-the-metal. Kinda weird. I've never tried that before. Anyway, it works for me. Log out and I'm back to my Icewm. That was trippy. And now I've lost all my terminal windows and I have her wallpaper.

I tried ssh -X to the other PC, then gnome-session, and now it won't let me log out properly in the Actions menu. Ctrl-C in my term window under ssh, I can log out, gnome goes away, her PC goes back to idle, but now I'm also stuck with her desktop icons as well as wallpaper, but it didn't kill my term windows this time. Her icons work for me too, and nautilus fires up. I hate nautilus. Gnome is gone, I have my Icewm, but her working desktop. This is even weirder. Ssh will not let me log out either. Kill -15 from another term does it, and her desktop vanishes.

What a strange experiment. Anyway, it (sorta) works for me. I don't know what to say. No errors whatsoever, just bizarre and surreal.

One last comment, though. Both her and I run identical OSes (Mandrake10). That may have some factor in this.