NoMachine Remote
question
TLDR: I want to use NoMachine personal edition on Bazzite but I get an error due to folders being locked by root.
I've been looking for a RDP solution that works with Wayland so I don't have to rebase my install to Gnome. I was recommend NoMachine because it's maintained, is free for personal use, and has all the bells and whistles for all platforms. My Bazzite experience has me feeling like my install is some what of a unicorn. Everything works out of the box for me on my rig. I'm using an AM4 5600X, 64GB RAM, Nvidia 4070 Super, plugged into HDMI, and besides switching to Proton-GE it's stupid flawless. Now I'd like to remote into my machine on my tailnet via my ipad. The remote stuff has been a bad experience without having to change things I personally feel might shatter the horn of my unicorn.
So I was able to install the RPM of NoMachine using rpm-ostree install nomachinepackage.rpm . It installed without errors that I saw, but the service will not start. I attempted to start the service in terminal so I could get the error output. Any suggestions?
user@bazzite:~$ sudo /etc/NX/nxserver --restart
[sudo] password for user:
984497 984497 2026-02-12 19:48:18 217.069 Logger/Logger: ERROR! Can't open node '/usr/NX/var/log/server.log'.
984497 984497 2026-02-12 19:48:18 217.204 Logger/Logger: ERROR! In method 'makeStream()' context [A] error 30 'Read-only file system'.
LogStream: WARNING! Thread 984497 appended empty string.
Error: (empty)Can't open node '/usr/NX/var/log/server.log'.
Error: Error 30 'Read-only file system'.
NX> 500 WARNING! Cannot redirect stderr to file: '/usr/NX/var/log/server.log'.
NX> 500 WARNING! Error is 30 Read-only file system.
984497 984497 2026-02-12 19:48:18 562.369 NXSERVER WARNING! Cannot open: /usr/NX/var/log/server.log.
984497 984497 2026-02-12 19:48:18 562.398 NXSERVER WARNING! Error is: 30, 'Read-only file system'.
NX> 596 Error: Cannot open /usr/NX/var/log/server.log - 'Read-only file system'.
I've been looking for a RDP solution that works with Wayland so I don't have to rebase my install to Gnome. I was recommend NoMachine because it's maintained, is free for personal use, and has all the bells and whistles for all platforms. My Bazzite experience has me feeling like my install is some what of a unicorn. Everything works out of the box for me on my rig. I'm using an AM4 5600X, 64GB RAM, Nvidia 4070 Super, plugged into HDMI, and besides switching to Proton-GE it's stupid flawless. Now I'd like to remote into my machine on my tailnet via my ipad. The remote stuff has been a bad experience without having to change things I personally feel might shatter the horn of my unicorn.
So I was able to install the RPM of NoMachine using rpm-ostree install nomachinepackage.rpm . It installed without errors that I saw, but the service will not start. I attempted to start the service in terminal so I could get the error output. Any suggestions?
user@bazzite:~$ sudo /etc/NX/nxserver --restart
[sudo] password for user:
984497 984497 2026-02-12 19:48:18 217.069 Logger/Logger: ERROR! Can't open node '/usr/NX/var/log/server.log'.
984497 984497 2026-02-12 19:48:18 217.204 Logger/Logger: ERROR! In method 'makeStream()' context [A] error 30 'Read-only file system'.
LogStream: WARNING! Thread 984497 appended empty string.
Error: (empty)Can't open node '/usr/NX/var/log/server.log'.
Error: Error 30 'Read-only file system'.
NX> 500 WARNING! Cannot redirect stderr to file: '/usr/NX/var/log/server.log'.
NX> 500 WARNING! Error is 30 Read-only file system.
984497 984497 2026-02-12 19:48:18 562.369 NXSERVER WARNING! Cannot open: /usr/NX/var/log/server.log.
984497 984497 2026-02-12 19:48:18 562.398 NXSERVER WARNING! Error is: 30, 'Read-only file system'.
NX> 596 Error: Cannot open /usr/NX/var/log/server.log - 'Read-only file system'.
