[X2go-dev] x2go not working on ubuntu 10.10?

jmm jagermeistermeister at gmail.com
Fri Jan 21 17:42:31 CET 2011


Oops excuse me I use Ubuntu 9.10 karmic, not 9.04 as I said earlier.


jmm wrote:
> Things I tried, but did not work:
>
> - check if user is a member of "x2gousers" group in /etc/group
> - check if user is a member of "fuse" group in /etc/group
> - reset password of user to make sure not entering wrong password
> - set DisallowTCP to false in /etc/gdm/gdm.schemas
> - remove "-nolisten tcp" from /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc
> - run the command `xhost +x` (from the command line it gives an error 
> "xhost: unable to open display """ caused by no active display (and 
> therefore no $DISPLAY environment variable), so I also tried entering 
> this from within an VNC session and the command completed normally, 
> also tried this with an Xvfb xsession)
> - allowed login with passwords in /etc/ssh/sshd_config
> - restart ssh service
> - restart EC2 instance
> - tried installing packages x2goserver-home, x2goserver-one, 
> x2goserver (and removed installations between trying different packages)
>
> When I tried different NX servers, I always used the corresponding 
> client (I have been careful not to mix up different clients with 
> different servers). For x2goserver I am using x2goclient from the 
> repository, I am using it on Ubuntu 9.04 desktop 64-bit edition. My 
> settings are:
>
> name: test
> hostname: <EC2 public dns here>
> login: ubuntu
> ssh port: 22
> use rsa/dsa key for SSH connection: <tried different settings, tried 
> to leave it empty, tried the key I got from amazon, tried a key which 
> was sitting in ~/.ssh/id_rsa; tried all possibilities with and without 
> password>
> session type: GNOME
>
> In all cases the error on the server stays the same.
>
>
> brian mullan wrote:
>> I've been  using AMI's from Alestic or one's I build myself.   But 
>> x2go's been working solid.
>>
>> So you did all the normal things like change /etc/ssh/sshd_config
>> to allow login with passwords
>> and the user is a member of x2gousers 'group'
>> etc
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 5:21 AM, jmm <jagermeistermeister at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:jagermeistermeister at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     Yes, it is an Ubuntu Server AMI with ubuntu-desktop installed,
>>     the desktop is working with VNC so that part seems to have gone OK.
>>
>>     FYI it was an alestic.com <http://alestic.com> Ubuntu 10.10
>>     image, did you get the image from Canonical?
>>
>>
>>
>>     brian mullan wrote:
>>>
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>>>     Date: Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 3:29 AM
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>>>     Note sure what you are doing but I've got quite a few ubuntu
>>>     10.10 servers on amazon
>>>     that I connect to using x2go.     Lack of the video card on
>>>     those AWS EC2 machines
>>>     makes no difference in regards to x2go.
>>>
>>>     But you have installed a "desktop" on those AWS instances?
>>>
>>>     If you created an instance from an Ubuntu Server AMI then you
>>>     would need to
>>>
>>>     /sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop/
>>>
>>>     or install some "light" desktop.
>>>
>>>
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>>>     Message: 4
>>>     Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 09:27:33 +0100
>>>     From: jmm <jagermeistermeister at gmail.com
>>>     <mailto:jagermeistermeister at gmail.com>>
>>>     To: x2go-dev at lists.berlios.de <mailto:x2go-dev at lists.berlios.de>
>>>     Subject: [X2go-dev] x2go not working on ubuntu 10.10?
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>>>     Hi,
>>>
>>>     I tried to get this working all night, but it seems there is no
>>>     way to
>>>     connect to an ubuntu 10.10 installation using x2go (package
>>>     x2goserver-home). When trying to connect, x2goagent is
>>>     complaining about
>>>     not being able to open a display (in the session log). The
>>>     machine is an
>>>     Amazon EC2 instance, which has no video card. I suspect this is
>>>     causing
>>>     the trouble. I have read it was working on ubuntu 10.04 by the
>>>     way, as
>>>     in http://blog.restbackup.com/how-to-use-amazon-ec2-as-your-desktop
>>>
>>>     I also tried freenx, neatx and nxserver (from nomachine), and
>>>     they all
>>>     give similar errors. Tightvncserver on the other hand does work,
>>>     maybe
>>>     that's not so useful information, but just in case.
>>>
>>>     The server log says:
>>>
>>>     $ cat session.log
>>>     /usr/bin/x2goagent: line 1: -e: command not found
>>>
>>>     NXAGENT - Version 3.4.0
>>>
>>>     Copyright (C) 2001, 2007 NoMachine.
>>>     See http://www.nomachine.com/ for more information.
>>>
>>>     Info: Agent running with pid '3065'.
>>>     Session: Starting session at 'Fri Jan 21 00:42:15 2011'.
>>>     Info: Proxy running in server mode with pid '3065'.
>>>     Info: Waiting for connection from 'localhost' on port '30001'.
>>>     Info: Accepted connection from '127.0.0.1'.
>>>     Warning: Connected to remote version 3.2.0 with local version 3.4.0.
>>>     Info: Connection with remote proxy completed.
>>>     Info: Using ADSL link parameters 512/24/1/0.
>>>     Info: Using agent parameters 5000/10/50/0/0.
>>>     Info: Using cache parameters 4/4096KB/8192KB/8192KB.
>>>     Info: Using pack method '16m-jpeg-9' with session
>>>     'unix-kde-depth_24'.
>>>     Info: Using ZLIB data compression 1/1/32.
>>>     Info: Using ZLIB stream compression 4/4.
>>>     Info: No suitable cache file found.
>>>     Info: Listening to X11 connections on display ':50'.
>>>     Warning: The channel for FD#5 channel ID#1 was not marked as
>>>     finishing.
>>>     Error: Aborting session with 'X2goagent: Unable to open display
>>>     'nx/nx,options=/home/ubuntu/.x2go/C-ubuntu-50-1295570534_stDGNOME_dp24/options:50''.
>>>     Session: Aborting session at 'Fri Jan 21 00:42:24 2011'.
>>>     Session: Session aborted at 'Fri Jan 21 00:42:24 2011'.
>>>     Warning: Signals were not blocked in process with pid '3065'.
>>>     Info: Your session has died before reaching an usable state.
>>>     Info: This can be due to the remote X server refusing access to
>>>     the client.
>>>     Info: Please check the authorization provided by your X application.
>>>     Info: Waiting the cleanup timeout to complete.
>>>
>>>
>>>     Client (x2goclient) log says:
>>>
>>>
>>>     NXPROXY - Version 3.2.0
>>>
>>>     Copyright (C) 2001, 2007 NoMachine.
>>>     See http://www.nomachine.com/ for more information.
>>>
>>>     Info: Proxy running in client mode with pid '7391'.
>>>     Session: Starting session at 'Fri Jan 21 02:29:02 2011'.
>>>     Info: Connecting to remote host 'localhost:30001'.
>>>     Info: Connection to remote proxy 'localhost:30001' established.
>>>     Warning: Connected to remote version 3.4.0 with local version 3.2.0.
>>>     Warning: Consider checking http://www.nomachine.com/ for updates.
>>>     Info: Connection with remote proxy completed.
>>>     Warning: Unrecognized session type 'unix-kde-depth_24'. Assuming
>>>     agent
>>>     session.
>>>     Info: Using ADSL link parameters 512/24/1/0.
>>>     Info: Using cache parameters 4/4096KB/8192KB/8192KB.
>>>     Info: Using pack method '16m-jpeg-9' with session
>>>     'unix-kde-depth_24'.
>>>     Info: Using ZLIB data compression 1/1/32.
>>>     Info: Using ZLIB stream compression 4/4.
>>>     Info: No suitable cache file found.
>>>     Info: Forwarding X11 connections to display ':0.0'.
>>>     Session: Session started at 'Fri Jan 21 02:29:06 2011'.
>>>     Error: Connection to ':0.0' failed. Error is 111 'Connection
>>>     refused'.Session: Terminating session at 'Fri Jan 21 02:29:15 2011'.
>>>     Info: Your session was closed before reaching a usable state.
>>>     Info: This can be due to the local X server refusing access to
>>>     the client.
>>>     Info: Please check authorization provided by the remote X
>>>     application.
>>>     Session: Session terminated at 'Fri Jan 21 02:29:15 2011'.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     I'd really like to try NX, since it appearantly works faster
>>>     than VNC.
>>>     Please advice.
>>>
>>>     Kind regards,
>>>
>>>     jmm
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