Bodhi in VM: 2 desktop environments installed - problems with copy-and-paste (spice)
by Rosika from LinuxQuestions.org on (#53WPD)
Hi altogether,
Ive encountered a peculiar problem lately which puzzles me quite a bit.
Heres what Ive done:
Ive been running BodhiLinux (32 bit, latest version, up-to-date) in a virtual machine (qemu/kvm) for quite a while now. My host is Linux/Lubuntu 18.04.4 LTS, 64 bit (also up-to-date).
In order to make copy-and-paste from clipboard work I installed spice-client on my host:
Code:sudo apt-get install spice-client-gtk
sudo apt-get install python-spice-client-gtk
and spice-vdagent on my guest (Bodhi): Code:sudo apt-get install spice-vdagent.
This works very well. The only thing Ive got to do is start it on Bodhi with Code:spice-vdagent. Then clipboard exchange works for the duration of the session (both directions).
Out of curiosity I installed a 2nd desktop-environment on Bodhi (still my VM) with Code:sudo apt-get install lubuntu-core.
That works fine as well and its easy to select the respective desktop-environment at start.
The only thing which gives me problems is spice.
Starting spice with "spice-vdagent" in Bodhi seems to fail now.
"systemctl status spice-vdagent" produces a red line which says:
Code:multiple agents in one session, disabling agent to avoid potential information leak
[and]
closed vdagent virtio channel.
On another occasion I got this:
Code:spice-vdagent.service: Cant open PID file /var/run/spice-vdagentd/spice-vdagentd.pid (yet?) after start: No such file or directory.
This was connected to time-mark 13:53:26.
BUT: "ll /var/run/spice-vdagent" gave me two entries:
"spice-vdagentd.pid" and "spice-vdagent-stock=" both with a time-mark of 13:53 !
So "spice-vdagentd.pid" was created and available after all.
I have no idea why I keep running into that kind of problem. The only explanation Ive got is that it must have something to do with the fact that I have two desktop environments installed (moksha and LXDE) although only one of them is running at any given time of course.
Bodhi-VM running with moksha alone DOESNT produce any problems with spice.
Does anybody know a solution to that?
Thanks a lot in advance.
Greetings.
Rosika :confused:
Ive encountered a peculiar problem lately which puzzles me quite a bit.
Heres what Ive done:
Ive been running BodhiLinux (32 bit, latest version, up-to-date) in a virtual machine (qemu/kvm) for quite a while now. My host is Linux/Lubuntu 18.04.4 LTS, 64 bit (also up-to-date).
In order to make copy-and-paste from clipboard work I installed spice-client on my host:
Code:sudo apt-get install spice-client-gtk
sudo apt-get install python-spice-client-gtk
and spice-vdagent on my guest (Bodhi): Code:sudo apt-get install spice-vdagent.
This works very well. The only thing Ive got to do is start it on Bodhi with Code:spice-vdagent. Then clipboard exchange works for the duration of the session (both directions).
Out of curiosity I installed a 2nd desktop-environment on Bodhi (still my VM) with Code:sudo apt-get install lubuntu-core.
That works fine as well and its easy to select the respective desktop-environment at start.
The only thing which gives me problems is spice.
Starting spice with "spice-vdagent" in Bodhi seems to fail now.
"systemctl status spice-vdagent" produces a red line which says:
Code:multiple agents in one session, disabling agent to avoid potential information leak
[and]
closed vdagent virtio channel.
On another occasion I got this:
Code:spice-vdagent.service: Cant open PID file /var/run/spice-vdagentd/spice-vdagentd.pid (yet?) after start: No such file or directory.
This was connected to time-mark 13:53:26.
BUT: "ll /var/run/spice-vdagent" gave me two entries:
"spice-vdagentd.pid" and "spice-vdagent-stock=" both with a time-mark of 13:53 !
So "spice-vdagentd.pid" was created and available after all.
I have no idea why I keep running into that kind of problem. The only explanation Ive got is that it must have something to do with the fact that I have two desktop environments installed (moksha and LXDE) although only one of them is running at any given time of course.
Bodhi-VM running with moksha alone DOESNT produce any problems with spice.
Does anybody know a solution to that?
Thanks a lot in advance.
Greetings.
Rosika :confused: