[Parti-discuss] reconnecting to an abandoned Xvfb-for-Xpra server

[Nathaniel Smith]

2009/3/31 Brian J. Murrell <brian at interlinx.bc.ca>:
> On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 08:36 -0700, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
>> Try again with "-d all" (--no-daemon may be convenient for debugging
>> too) and tell us what it says?
>
> $ xpra upgrade :100 -d all --no-daemon
[...]

Okay, here's what's happening -- when you run 'xpra upgrade', it
attaches to the existing Xvfb, notices that there's an xpra server
already there, and asks it to exit quietly. But, of course, it
doesn't, because it's wedged, that's why you're restarting... (I wish
I knew why. Possibly some bug in the new clipboard code?)

Try running 'kill -9' on all the xpra upgrade/xpra start processes,
and then try running 'xpra upgrade' again and see if that helps.

Don't forget the -9 on the kill command; without it, the processes
might still manage to do an 'orderly shutdown', which would kill the
Xvfb that you want to preserve.

-- Nathaniel