[X2go-dev] Local Media Artifacts

[John A. Sullivan III]

On Fri, 2010-02-05 at 21:04 +0100, Heinz-M. Graesing wrote:
> > Hello, all. We are finding that, as we add and delete shares to local
>  > media, the virtual desktop is becoming cluttered with artifacts from the
>  > file sharing. These appear to be sshfs disk definitions but they do not
>  > appear as devices (e.g., allowing mounts).
> 
>  > Ah, this is ringing a bell from when we worked with X2Go a year ago.
>  > Our tmp file system is in a separate tmpfs partition and set to
>  > noexec,nosuid,nodev. I would assume these artifacts are supposed to be
>  > devices but fail because they are located in /tmp and we are set to
>  > nodev.
> 
>  > Is there any way to create the devices some place else besides /tmp?
> 
> Hello John,
> 
> /tmp was choosen because in every other part of the directory structure 
> ubuntu tries to mount the sshfs device itself.
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No need to reply -- just reporting in our results especially since this
is unsupported Hardy.  We will be testing Lenny shortly.

Funnily, when I told the icons on my desktop to reorganize, the ugly
artifacts turned into device icons but they were all mounted and they
could not unmount.  I reconfigured the VServer running X2Go so tmp was
now exec,suid,dev.  This changed nothing.  The devices could neither
mount nor unmount.  The devices seem to be automounted when I shared
them from the X2Go Client.

I also noticed that sshfs is a little more hit and miss than I'd like
for production.  When we start a fresh session, sometimes we can share
local media and sometimes we cannot.  We get errors such as:

sshd[9540]: error: channel_setup_fwd_listener: cannot listen to port:
30002

Again, no need to fret unless this persists on Lenny.  Thanks - John