xrdp: cannot start xrdp daemon

update the xrdp with the following commands in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS: sudo apt-get install xrdp sudo apt-get install vnc4server sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop

after run these commands, and restart the xrdp service sudo systemctl start xrdp

error occurs: Job for xrdp.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See “systemctl status xrdp.service” and “journalctl -xe” for details.

the information of systemctl status xrdp.service:

● xrdp.service - xrdp daemon
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/xrdp.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since
     Docs: man:xrdp(8)
           man:xrdp.ini(5)
  Process: 49975 ExecStop=/usr/local/sbin/xrdp $XRDP_OPTIONS --kill (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
  Process: 44991 ExecStart=/usr/local/sbin/xrdp $XRDP_OPTIONS (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
 Main PID: 3316 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)

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Created 4 years ago
Comments: 18 (7 by maintainers)

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Thanks.

If your getting that prompt, it seems likely your xrdp.ini has changed, and that is possibly preventing the XRDP daemon from starting.

Try the following to start with clean files:-

sudo mv /etc/xrdp/sesman.ini /etc/xrdp/sesman.ini.sav
sudo mv /etc/xrdp/startwm.sh /etc/xrdp/startwm.sh.sav
sudo mv /etc/xrdp/xrdp.ini /etc/xrdp/xrdp.ini.sav
sudo apt -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confmiss" install --reinstall xrdp

If that gets you running we can look at the saved files to see what they actually contain.

+21

matt335672 on Jun 24, 2020

I got this error only if I have remote desktop turned on (in gnome environment) after switching it of xrdp starts normally

wotori on Aug 16, 2022

A year has passed, why do I still have this problem when I installed it by command? After the system restarts, the XRDP service fails to start

tangzhi1996 on Jan 18, 2022