I’ve found a fix for xrdp. The permissions required fixing!
For a non-root user, Xorg is not starting because it is not able to write the Xorg.10.log file to the location /home/{user}/.local/share/xorg
This xorg directory needs to be created with user ownership not root!
i.e.
sudo mkdir /home/user/.local/share/xorg
sudo chown user:user /home/user/.local/share/xorg
FWIW, I found out this by connecting to the xrdp and sesman services, having them running in the foreground to see the diagnostic output.
window 1.
sudo systemctl stop xrdp.service
sudo mkdir -p /var/run/xrdp/sockdir
sudo xrdp -ns
window 2.
sudo /usr/sbin/xrdp-sesman -ns
When connecting from the client (in my case xfreerdp) window 2 showed
-[20190224-19:06:54] [INFO ] Xorg :10 -auth .Xauthority -config xrdp/xorg.conf -noreset -nolisten tcp
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Fatal server error:
(EE) Cannot open log file "/home/adrian/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.10.log"
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Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support
at http://wiki.x.org
for help.
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BTW, on my desktop build I’ve installed xorgxrdp and done “dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg-legacy” to configure xorg access for anybody rather than console.
You shouldn’t need to install VNC services (tightvncserver etc…) for your xrdp experience!
