[X2Go-User] x2go overwrites LD_LIBRARY_PATH

[Mike Gabriel]

Hi,

On  Fr 11 Mär 2016 07:07:44 CET, Henry wrote:

>> LD_LIBRARY_PATH is set in a script in /etc/profile.d because this is a
>> system wide configuration and it needs to be performed once per login.
>> Using ssh to remote login, LD_LIBRARY_PATH is correct:
>>
>> echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH
>> /usr/lib/fsl/5.0
>>
>> When I login using x2go, LD_LIBRARY_PATH seems to be reset and contains
>> only the entries regarding x2go:
>>
>> echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH
>> /usr/lib/nx/X11/Xinerama:/usr/lib/nx/X11
>
> Hi Thomas,
>
> You posted a month ago, so I hope you've already found a fix.  I'm
> responding anyway, if anything for future-me, as I just encountered this
> problem, troubleshot it, and then realized that I ran into the same thing a
> few years ago the last time I installed x2go.
>
>
>> My guess is that there is probably an error in /usr/bin/x2goruncommand,
>> along these lines:
>>
>> test -n "$LD_LIBRARY_PATH" && \
>>    LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$NX_XINERAMA_LIBS:$NX_LIBS:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH" || \
>>    LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$NX_XINERAMA_LIBS:$NX_LIBS"
>> "$X2GO_LIB_PATH/x2gosyslog" "$0" "debug" "exporting
>> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"
>> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
>
>
> The lines that you excerpted from x2goruncommand are correct.  The problem
> is that your profile(s) isn't being run because bash isn't being invoked as
> a login shell.  There are a number of fixes for this; see:
>
>      https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1038834
>
> My fix of choice is to change the first line of /usr/bin/x2goruncommand to:
>
>      #!/bin/bash -l
>
> That's it!  Just add a space and two characters!  This probably violates
> all sorts of shell and X propriety, but I pretty much always use x2go to
> run full desktop sessions, so this has the desired effect for me.
>
> Best regards,
> H

Once nxagent 3.6.x is used with X2Go, the overwriting of  
LD_LIBRARY_PATH becomes obsolete.

See http://bugs.x2go.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=873

Mike




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