[X2go-dev] x2go windows client

[Gerry Reno]

On 07/22/2010 07:55 AM, Malic Zilyas wrote:
>  Dear members,
>
> Currently I'm switchin from FreeNx to x2go.
> i must say everything looks very good!
> Especially when using linux platforms only.
>
> When using the windows client I've had the following problem. When 
> trying to open a session:
> A first dialog with an empty msg, title: "Host key verification failed 
> ..." and option "Yes" and "No". Pressing Yes opend up the same dialog 
> again. Pressing No give me the error: "ssh_askpass: No such file or 
> directory Host key verification failed."
> The client is installed on a system that has the latest cygwin 
> installed. I was already using ssh and sshd from the cygwin package. 
> This gave conflicting cygwin1.dll versions. Copy the latest dll the 
> x2go folder did not resolve the problem completely. A new error 
> occured, something like could not create directory /home/mz/ssh. I 
> don't remember the exact error msg. I did a full scan of all 
> cygwin1.dll. I found that I was running a little tool on the 
> background (xplanet) that was also using a cygwin1.dll but a much 
> older one. After closing down that tool, restoring the x2go original 
> cygwin1.dll to its folder and trying again... All is well ...
> I started up my cron and sshd services again with the new cygwin1.dll 
> and starting the x2go client with its original dll. Everything worked 
> again!
>
> I just want to share this information, maybe put it in the faq or 
> something. When using the windows client, be carefull to look for 
> other (older) cygwin1.dlls
>
> For the rest I'm very happy using x2go.
> Thank you all
>  Malic Zilyas
>
>
This problem of older cygwin1.dll is a general problem of using Cygwin 
and not just with x2go and something for which you have to be alert.  
After a while you may setup a number of applications that require Cygwin 
and then later you may update your Cygwin installation to a later 
version.  And sometimes this leaves older applications using 
older/conflicting versions of cygwin1.dll.

Gerry