[X2go-dev] X2Go + VServer problem

[John A. Sullivan III]

On Mon, 2009-12-28 at 22:45 -0500, John A. Sullivan III wrote: 
> Oops! Just hit a big problem.  I'm trying to install X2GoServer-One into
> a VServer running Ubuntu Karmic.  We have done this successfully in the
> past with Hardy.  The combination of X2Go and VServer offers incredible
> potential - in our case much greater than with hypervisor style
> virtualization.
> 
> However, we are hitting a major dependency problem in Karmic.  In
> VServer, we are not using any of the hardware directly.  In the past, we
> set the xorg.conf driver to dummy.  However, Karmic is behaving
> differently.  When installing xserver-xorg, it insists on writing
> to /proc/mtrr which is not allowed in a vserver for security reasons.
> We spent two days doing it but have successfully installed KDE and Gnome
> without having to install xserver-xorg.
> 
> The problem is that X2Go is insisting on xserver-xorg as a dependency.
> This may be indirect as I see it is also asking for xinit and Karmic
> sets xserver-xorg as a dependency for xinit.  Is there a way to install
> without this dependency on xserver-xorg? This is a critical problem for
> us.  Thanks - John
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I do see it is being pulled in via x2goagent but I don't know from
where.  I've looked at the tarballs and there seems to be no control
file specifying dependencies and I don't know enough about apt to know
where to look next.  Thanks - John