XRDP - Failed to load session "gnome"

[victorhooi]

Hi,

I've installed a Ubuntu 13.04 desktop, and added Gnome 3 by following:

http://www.webupd8.org/2012/10/how-to-get-complete-gnome-3-desktop-in.html

I've also installed xrdp and now I'm trying to connect to my desktop from another box using FreeRDP.

I can login to Gnome-shell fine from the local session. Xrdp however, doesn't seem to work.

My ~/.xsession contains:


exec gnome-session --session=gnome

(I've also tried with just exec gnome-session).

I can get a Xrdp graphical login screen, however, when I try to login, I get:


Failed to load session "gnome"

and a "Log out" button.

I checked /var/log/xrdp-sesman.log, and I didn't really see much useful:


[20130317-01:06:54] [INFO ] scp thread on sck 7 started successfully
[20130317-01:06:54] [INFO ] ++ created session (access granted): username victorhooi, ip 192.168.4.6:59389 - socket: 7
[20130317-01:06:54] [INFO ] starting Xvnc session...
[20130317-01:06:55] [INFO ] starting xrdp-sessvc - xpid=5495 - wmpid=5494
[20130317-01:06:58] [INFO ] ++ terminated session: username victorhooi, display :11.0, session_pid 5493, ip 192.168.4.6:59389 - socket: 7
[20130317-01:11:58] [INFO ] scp thread on sck 7 started successfully
[20130317-01:11:59] [INFO ] ++ created session (access granted): username victorhooi, ip 192.168.4.6:60005 - socket: 7
[20130317-01:11:59] [INFO ] starting Xvnc session...
[20130317-01:11:59] [INFO ] starting xrdp-sessvc - xpid=5594 - wmpid=5593

The LogLevel is set to DEBUG in /etc/xrdp/sesman.ini, so I was hoping it'd log more.

Does Xrdp log more somewhere else as well?

Any idea on what might be causing this issue? (I note that Winswitch also seems to give a similar error when I try to start a gnome-shell session).

Cheers,
Victor

[WasMeHere]

I don't use gnome but Lubuntu with xubuntu-desktop, and then it connects with the xfce desktop when running xrdp and connecting with rdesktop from another Ubuntu computer. See the attached dump of the rdesktop window.

Edit: I should add that I'm running 12.04. Your problem might be that 13.04 is not ready yet for xrdp. By the way, what system are you running at the other end?

[gordintoronto]

There's actually a special forum for people helping to test the unreleased version of Ubuntu.