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
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 <snip> 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
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John A. Sullivan III