For reference, both my server and client are Fedora 28 running trunk r20495 built from source.
Using xpra start ssh:user@host
fails with Paramiko selected when a user gives a --start=
flag that uses double quotes to run commands that are multiple words. For example, --start="xterm -hold -e dmesg"
will fail, but --start=xterm
does not.
I double checked that Paramiko was at fault by running the same commands with --ssh="ssh -X"
, and they go through just fine, and the session starts successfully. Unfortunately, I'm not getting any specific error in the client output, even with -d ssh
, just the Xpra usage output that is given when a user enters an unrecognized option.
Interestingly, running xpra start-desktop ssh:user@host --start="xrandr -s 1920x1080" --start=i3
gives a different output:
2018-09-21 09:50:17,588 Error: failed to receive anything, not an xpra server? 2018-09-21 09:50:17,589 could also be the wrong protocol, username, password or port 2018-09-21 09:50:17,589 or the session was not found 2018-09-21 09:50:17,589 Connection lost
Running with -d ssh
prints the following relevant line:
2018-09-21 09:51:16,269 Authentication (publickey) successful! 2018-09-21 09:51:16,282 will try to run xpra from: ['$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/xpra/run-xpra', 'xpra', '/usr/local/bin/xpra', '~/.xpra/run-xpra'] 2018-09-21 09:51:16,383 exec_command('which $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/xpra/run-xpra') 2018-09-21 09:51:16,387 exit status is not ready yet, sleeping 2018-09-21 09:51:16,397 exit status is not ready yet, sleeping 2018-09-21 09:51:16,407 exit status is not ready yet, sleeping 2018-09-21 09:51:16,418 exec_command('which $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/xpra/run-xpra')=0 2018-09-21 09:51:16,418 trying to open SSH session, window-size=134217727, timeout=60 2018-09-21 09:51:16,482 channel exec_command($XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/xpra/run-xpra "_proxy_start_desktop" ""--start=xrandr -s 1920x1080"" ""--start=i3"" ""--debug=ssh"")
I wonder if those double double quotes are to blame?
(forgot quotes, and clarified which command works as expected)
FYI: the debug flag to use is -d ssh
.
Fixed in r20497. (we were quoting command line arguments twice with paramiko)
this ticket has been moved to: https://github.com/Xpra-org/xpra/issues/1966