[phenixbb] phenix v1.4-3 and NX

[Jesper Lykkegaard Karlsen]

Hi Paul,

>   what happens if you change the statement to say:
>
>     exit 0
>
>   instead of exit 1?
No did not help, still get black screen on the nxclient. Only 
out-commenting/deleting helps.

Cheers,
Jesper



>
> On Jan 9, 2009, at 3:52 AM, Jesper Lykkegaard Karlsen wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> After upgrading our workstations to phenix v1.4-3, the user started 
>> having problems connecting to the machines through nxclient. The 
>> login ended up with a black screen on the client and absolutely no 
>> error messages on neither client nor server.
>>
>> The problem seemed to come from setting up the global environment for 
>> phenix (phenix_env.sh). I narrowed the problematic statement down to 
>> this:
>>
>> if [ "$PHENIX_MTYPE" = "unknown-unknown" ]; then
>>   exit 1
>> fi
>>
>> Although "$PHENIX_MTYPE" = "intel-linux-2.6-x86_64" when logged in, 
>> somehow the "nx user" gets "$PHENIX_MTYPE" = "unknown-unknown" when 
>> it logs in, through it's authorization key, to establish the users 
>> session.
>>
>> To make a already to long story short. The problem can be fixed by 
>> commenting out the problematic statement above.
>>
>> And one question to the developers:
>>
>> Could this be avoided in the future?
>> Perhaps give a warning instead off exiting completly!
>>
>> Sincerely
>> Jesper
>>
>> -- Jesper L. Karlsen Scientific Computing Centre for Structural 
>> Biology Department of Molecular Biology University of Aarhus Gustav 
>> Wieds Vej 10C 8000 Aarhus C Phone: +45 8942 5268 E-mail: 
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