[X2Go-Dev] Bug#93: x2goagent should create /tmp/.X11-unix directory

[Orion Poplawski]

On 12/19/2012 09:14 AM, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 9:20 AM, Mike Gabriel
> <mike.gabriel at das-netzwerkteam.de> wrote:
>> Package: x2goagent
>> Severity: normal
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Weitergeleitete Nachricht von Burnce at gmx.net -----
>>       Datum: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 08:57:53 +0100
>>         Von: Burnce at gmx.net
>>     Betreff: [X2Go-User] RHEL6 package should create /tmp/.X11-unix directory
>>          An: X2Go-User at lists.berlios.de
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> After much hunting I found what the problem was runnung x2goserver on a
>> freshly installed server.
>>
>> Apparently X2Go requires the /tmp/.X11-unix directory to exist with
>> permissions 1777.
>>
>> Could you please see to it the creation of this directory and the
>> permissions settings are performed by teh x2goserver package.
>
>
> At least in debian, this directory is created by the init script of
> the x11-common package. Maybe x2goserver should explicitly depend on
> that package.
>
> I'm not sure what the equivalent package is in RedHat/Fedora, but it
> clearly seems to be a packaging issue to me.
>

On Fedora it is created via systemd's tmpfiles mechanism, and in fact provided 
by the systemd package so it will be on all machines.

I'm using it on a RHEL6 server with no native/local X server.  The X server 
itself will create the directory if it doesn't exist, but will abort if it 
already exists but with the wrong owner or permissions.

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