On Mon, 2009-12-28 at 23:24 +0100, Thomas Weber wrote: > Am Montag, den 28.12.2009, 14:12 -0500 schrieb John A. Sullivan III: > [...] > > Thanks. Just getting back to this now. That is what we do - these are > > virtual desktops which we deliver using NX either via NoMachine's or > > X2Go's (www.x2go.org) implementation. It worked fine under Hardy but > > something must have changed in Karmic. I'll keep digging and let the > > list know what I find. If anyone has already fought this battle, please > > let me know! - John > > For NX you don't need no harware xorg packages at all. Just get rid of > all xorg-* packages. I have installed xserver-common though. > Watch out for meta-packages like ubuntu-desktop that probably depend on > lots of hardware stuff (and pull these in). > > The biggest pain is (this %!$%^ half finished and strange behaving) > upstart. See the wiki for this (/var/run and /var/lock as tmpfs inside > the guest helps alot!). > > I have a working karmic vserver with NX and no extra capabilities. > Though this was a jaunty vserver which I upgraded and fiddled around > alot to get it working. The upstart wiki entry was the result of this. > But I can't exactly tell which of my settings/changes got me the NX > stuff running. > > I'd be happy to help you with specific NX issues and maybe you wanna > document this too. > > Attached is the list of packages installed on that vserver (dpkg > --get-selections) (note that this is probably much more than you > want/need) > > regards, > Tom Snip> Argh!!! I thought I would be able to report complete success. Ubuntu Karmic installed. After a bit of hacking guided by the very helpful X2Go folks, X2Go installed. But then I was badly bitten by upstart. I haven't completed researching but it looks like a newer kernel might help. I'm running 2.6.28. I noticed 2.6.32 with a VServer experimental patch has been released. I'd love to give 2.6.32 a try because of the shared memory capability. Is this kernel + vserver combination reasonably stable or is it still being heavily debugged? Thanks - John