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    • StrongBadS
      StrongBad
      last edited by

      Have you tried looking in /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config ?

      Make sure that you have...

      allowed_users = anybody
      
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      • StrongBadS
        StrongBad
        last edited by

        Is your VNC server running correctly? Use netstat to see if it is listening.

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        • dafyreD
          dafyre
          last edited by dafyre

          There's a couple of things to check.

          The first and foremost is make sure your distro is using X and not Wayland. Someone here pointed out the right file to check for that. In Fedora, You check /etc/gdm/custom.conf, you uncomment the line #WaylandEnable=false

          Thanks to @black3dynamite for the pointers on Fedora.

          I'll echo @StrongBad 's suggestion to check /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config -- if it doesn't exist, then create it with the settings he listed.

          You will also have better performance with a desktop environment like MATE or XFCE, rather than Cinnamon or Gnome.

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          • dafyreD
            dafyre
            last edited by

            Also, what version of Ubuntu are you using?

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            • gjacobseG
              gjacobse
              last edited by

              Ran into this tonight ...Screenshot from 2019-02-04 20-16-38.png

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              • gjacobseG
                gjacobse @dafyre
                last edited by

                @dafyre said in Running Xrdp on Ubuntu:

                Also, what version of Ubuntu are you using?

                ~$ lsb_release -a
                No LSB modules are available.
                Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
                Description:	Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS
                Release:	18.04
                Codename:	bionic
                
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                • gjacobseG
                  gjacobse @StrongBad
                  last edited by

                  @StrongBad said in Running Xrdp on Ubuntu:

                  Have you tried looking in /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config ?

                  Make sure that you have...

                  allowed_users = anybody
                  

                  It was set as

                  allowed_users=console
                  

                  updated.

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                  • gjacobseG
                    gjacobse
                    last edited by

                    Post change - Repeats,.. can't get out of it asking... but - step forward...
                    2019-02-04 20_35_54-Window.png

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                    • gjacobseG
                      gjacobse
                      last edited by

                      Ha... joy

                      Can't even sign in at the local. Select UserName, enter password, repeats.... sigh..

                      FML

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                      • gjacobseG
                        gjacobse
                        last edited by gjacobse

                        uname -r
                        4.15.0-45-generic
                        
                        gjacob@TSG:~$ sudo apt-get autoremove --purge
                        
                        Reading package lists... Done
                        Building dependency tree       
                        Reading state information... Done
                        0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
                        1 not fully installed or removed.
                        After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
                        Setting up grub-efi-amd64-signed (1.93.11+2.02-2ubuntu8.10) ...
                        /boot/vmlinuz-4.15.0-43201901161620-generic is unsigned.
                        E: Your kernels are not signed with a key known to your firmware. This system will fail to boot in a Secure Boot environment.
                        dpkg: error processing package grub-efi-amd64-signed (--configure):
                         installed grub-efi-amd64-signed package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
                        Errors were encountered while processing:
                         grub-efi-amd64-signed
                        E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
                        
                        gjacob@TSG:~$ dpkg -l | tail -n +6 | grep -E 'linux-image-[0-9]+'
                        rc  linux-image-4.15.0-29-generic                      4.15.0-29.31                                 amd64        Signed kernel image generic
                        rc  linux-image-4.15.0-43-generic                      4.15.0-43.46                                 amd64        Signed kernel image generic
                        ii  linux-image-4.15.0-44-generic                      4.15.0-44.47                                 amd64        Signed kernel image generic
                        ii  linux-image-4.15.0-45-generic                      4.15.0-45.48                                 amd64        Signed kernel image generic
                        
                        
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                        • dafyreD
                          dafyre
                          last edited by

                          Before I say anything more, I have a question... Is this a system that's you're going to use locally and remotely, or will you be using it via RDP mostly?

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                          • gjacobseG
                            gjacobse @dafyre
                            last edited by

                            @dafyre said in Running Xrdp on Ubuntu:

                            Before I say anything more, I have a question... Is this a system that's you're going to use locally and remotely, or will you be using it via RDP mostly?

                            For the now, it's sitting right here next to my desktop. But the idea is to be able to remote both ways (remmina works fine to Windows) so I only need to use the one keyboard/mouse/monitor(s).

                            I could use VNC - if I could get it to work... but for some reason it's 'failing'..

                            now,.. reversing the recent update/ installs I've done I get:

                            Setting up grub-efi-amd64-signed (1.93.11+2.02-2ubuntu8.10) ...
                            /boot/vmlinuz-4.15.0-43201901161620-generic is unsigned.
                            E: Your kernels are not signed with a key known to your firmware. This system will fail to boot in a Secure Boot environment.
                            dpkg: error processing package grub-efi-amd64-signed (--configure):
                             installed grub-efi-amd64-signed package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
                            Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.27-3ubuntu1) ...
                            Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.3-2ubuntu0.1) ...
                            Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-11ubuntu1.1) ...
                            Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-2) ...
                            Errors were encountered while processing:
                             grub-efi-amd64-signed
                            E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
                            
                            

                            Looking at the listed kernels now:

                            :~$ dpkg -l | tail -n +6 | grep -E 'linux-image-[0-9]+'
                            rc  linux-image-4.15.0-29-generic                      4.15.0-29.31                                 amd64        Signed kernel image generic
                            rc  linux-image-4.15.0-43-generic                      4.15.0-43.46                                 amd64        Signed kernel image generic
                            pi  linux-image-4.15.0-44-generic                      4.15.0-44.47                                 amd64        Signed kernel image generic
                            pi  linux-image-4.15.0-45-generic                      4.15.0-45.48                                 amd64        Signed kernel image generic
                            
                            

                            Odd that 44 and 45 were listed as ii and now so as pi

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                            • dafyreD
                              dafyre
                              last edited by

                              Not sure what to do about the EFI issue....

                              What I do when I want to use mine like that is set up x11vnc-server and then run it through XRDP (and choose the console option). It's faster than stock VNC... Don't ask me why, lol. I haven't gotten instructions for that yet, I don't think.

                              If I remember right, after a reboot, you have to connect, close the connection, and then reconnect back using the XRDP+VNC option. I don't have any installation instructions for that setup on hand though. I can work it out and post them if you like.

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                              • gjacobseG
                                gjacobse @dafyre
                                last edited by

                                @dafyre said in Running Xrdp on Ubuntu:

                                Not sure what to do about the EFI issue....

                                What I do when I want to use mine like that is set up x11vnc-server and then run it through XRDP (and choose the console option). It's faster than stock VNC... Don't ask me why, lol. I haven't gotten instructions for that yet, I don't think.

                                If I remember right, after a reboot, you have to connect, close the connection, and then reconnect back using the XRDP+VNC option. I don't have any installation instructions for that setup on hand though. I can work it out and post them if you like.

                                This is likely where I went 'rouge' in that I didn't use x11vnc-server.. I had notes on that,.. at least I believe and have misplaced them. so I had forget that.

                                As I was starting to have other 'OS' Kernel issues (the mouse and keyboard wasn't working correctly) I nuked that partition from Windows, and will rebuild. Maybe it'll survive as I am of course getting grub 'errors' since that partition is gone.

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