Using XRDP in Ubuntu Budgie 18.10

[grysbok]

Hi guys,

I met an issue when I was trying to run Ubuntu Budgie in HyperV virtual machine. I followed these instructions, but the session closed right after I entered my login & password to XRDP screen. Finally, after several hours of debugging shell scripts, I found that the problem is with /etc/X11/Xsession script - it is not used by lightdm that is used by default in Budgie. lightdm uses it's own script /usr/sbin/lightdm-session.

The solution is pretty simple. First, use install.sh script to install xrdp and xorgxrdp:

$ sudo apt install git
$ git clone https://github.com/jterry75/xrdp-init.git ~/xrdp-init
$ cd ~/xrdp-init/ubuntu/18.04/
$ sudo chmod +x install.sh
$ sudo ./install.sh
(reboot)
$ cd ~/xrdp-init/ubuntu/18.04/
$ sudo ./install.sh

Don't forget to run this PowerShell script on the host windows machine:

PS> Set-VM -VMName <hyperv-vm-name> -EnhancedSessionTransportType HvSocket

Then, edit /etc/xrdp/startubuntu.sh script:

#!/bin/sh
exec /usr/sbin/lightdm-session /usr/bin/budgie-desktop

Another option is to change /etc/xrdp/startwm.sh script - replace line

test -x /etc/X11/Xsession && exec /etc/X11/Xsession

with

test -x /etc/X11/Xsession && exec /etc/X11/Xsession /usr/bin/budgie-desktop

Hope this helps.

[dtrunk90]

Nope

danny@danny$ sudo service xrdp status
● xrdp.service - xrdp daemon
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/xrdp.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2019-07-24 21:16:23 CEST; 2min 20s ago
     Docs: man:xrdp(8)
           man:xrdp.ini(5)
  Process: 1309 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/xrdp $XRDP_OPTIONS (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
  Process: 1287 ExecStartPre=/bin/sh /usr/share/xrdp/socksetup (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
 Main PID: 1325 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Jul 24 21:16:20 danny systemd[1]: Starting xrdp daemon...
Jul 24 21:16:20 danny xrdp[1309]: (1309)(140563129931584)[DEBUG] Testing if xrdp can listen on 0.0.0.0 port 3389.
Jul 24 21:16:21 danny xrdp[1309]: (1309)(140563129931584)[DEBUG] Closed socket 7 (AF_INET6 :: port 3389)
Jul 24 21:16:21 danny systemd[1]: xrdp.service: Can't open PID file /var/run/xrdp/xrdp.pid (yet?) after start: No such file or directory
Jul 24 21:16:21 danny systemd[1]: Started xrdp daemon.
Jul 24 21:16:22 danny xrdp[1325]: (1325)(140563129931584)[INFO ] starting xrdp with pid 1325
Jul 24 21:16:23 danny xrdp[1325]: (1325)(140563129931584)[ERROR] xrdp_listen_main_loop: listen error, possible port already in use
Jul 24 21:16:23 danny systemd[1]: xrdp.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Jul 24 21:16:23 danny systemd[1]: xrdp.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
danny@danny:~$ sudo lsof -i :3389
danny@danny:~$ sudo lsof -i :3350

[grysbok]

That's strange. What version of Budgie Desktop are you using? @dtrunk90

[dtrunk90]

@grysbok 10.4+git20180830.02.f2dbc215fdb-0+10.5ubuntu1

[dtrunk90]

Got it working by undoing the script stuff, reinstalling it manually (without the script; only xrdp package) and simply replacing the line in startwm.sh