[X2go-dev] x2go windows client

[Malic Zilyas]

  Yes it is.
But it can be a real search to come from an empty dialog box with title 
"Host key verification failed" to finding an old cygwin dll

On 22/07/2010 14:09, Gerry Reno wrote:
> 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
>
>
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