Centos 5 / RHEL 5 Installation Instructions

[acormack3]

There are a few people having problems with Centos/RHEL5 so I thought I would summarise what worked for me:

I needed to install the following RPM packages with Yum:

compat-libstdc++-33.i386 3.2.3-61
libXp.i386 1.0.0-8.1.el5
2xterminalserverclient.i586 1.5.0-106
2xterminalserver.i586 1.5.0-61
2xterminalserver.i586 1.5.0-61

However I still couldn't log in successfully. Eventually I found that the *missing* log file is stored in the home directory of the user logging in e.g.

/home/<username>/nx0/F-C-host.domain.com-1012-E721AF7A3548CC4D89FF60C481F31CCF

Within this directory there was a session log file that included the following lines:

Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/, removing from list!
Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/, removing from list!
Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/, removing from list!
Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/, removing from list!
Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/, removing from list!
Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/, removing from list!

Armed with this information I was able to solve the problem by creating a symbolic link to the correct place:


# mkdir /usr/X11R6/lib
# cd /usr/X11R6/lib
# ln -s /usr/share/X11 ./X11

After restarting the service

#service nxserver restart

I was able to log in fine. Hope this works for you also


Alec