[X2go-user] x2goclient as normal user fail

[John A. Sullivan III]

On Wed, 2011-02-23 at 18:52 +0100, Zbyszek Tokarczyk wrote:
> Hello,
> I was hoping to jump from freeNX to x2go remote desktop for my Arch
> and Ubuntu based machines. But I have some problems connecting to x2go
> service as normal user.
> 
> For a test drive I have installed x2goserver-one on Arch based server,
> and x2goclient on my Arch notebook.
> The server is working fine as I can ssh to it without any problems. I
> can even connect to x2goserver when the client is run with root
> priviliges (sudo x2goclient). Unfortunately running x2goclient and
> trying to connect to server with my normal priviliges (of course with
> same session configuration as from root) fails:
> - main x2goclient window does show connecting status after giving
> login creditials, and all buttons are greyed out
> - the remote desktop window does not show up at all
> 
> On both occasions I'm connectiong with same creditials. I'm not using
> any userdefined configuration files, so both root and my user share
> same ssh configuration.
> On console the only difference is that on root account there is line
> saying that nxproxy is starting, which is not showing on normal
> account.
> 
> If any detailed information is needed, just let me know how to get it
> and I'm going to send it to You.
> I really hope that we can solve this strange problem together.
> _<snip>
Just a quick thought.  Is there any chance root is using bash and
regular users are using dash as their shell? I know very little about
Arch but, until the X2Go Server side scripts specify /bin/bash instead
of /bin/sh, they will fail on dash shells. Good luck - John