[X2go-dev] Lenny -> Squeeze

[John A. Sullivan III]

On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 15:51 +0100, Paul van der Vlis wrote:
> John A. Sullivan III schreef:
> > On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 12:09 +0100, Paul van der Vlis wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I've tried to make a connection from a client (heuler version) on Lenny
> >> to server with Squeeze (stable version). But this did not work, I only
> >> get a black screen. This is what I get, I am wondering about 2x NXproxy.
> >> It was the second time I started te connection:
> 
> <cut>
> 
> > I haven't looked at your post carefully (racing out the door) but the
> > first thing that comes to mind with X2Go and Squeeze is that it may be
> > using dash instead of bash.  If you change the link /bin/sh to point
> > to /bin/bash instead of /bin/dash, does it work?
> 
> Yes, this works!
> 
> Hmm, not sure if I can change this without problems....
> 
> > At some point, one of us should track down which bash calls are being
> > used that are not available in dash and see if they can be replaced -
> 
> Or you could put in the scripts that it needs bash, and depends on bash.
> Hmm, not so nice.
> 
> With regards,
> Paul van der Vlis.
> 
> 
> 
> 
That's true.   I suppose the easiest thing for now and something I would
suggest for the next release is to change #!/bin/sh to #!/bin/bash.
That should work - John