[X2Go-User] X2Go client 4.0.0 can't resume certain sessions

[John Williams]

On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 7:18 AM, Sebastian Flothow
<sebastian.flothow at gip.com> wrote:
> we've encountered an issue where (at least) X2Go client 4.0.0.3 on Windows
> can't resume certain sessions. If this has been discussed before please
> point me to the relevant threads/bugs; I didn't find anything.
>
> The behavior is as follows: The affected version of the client is able to
> start new sessions, and also resume suspended sessions; however, resuming
> sessions after some delay (a few hours) causes the client to hang. Other
> versions of the client are then still able to resume this session, but even
> when resuming and suspending the session with a working client version,
> attempting to resume the session immediately afterwards in an affected
> client causes it to freeze.
>
> I've tried the following versions so far:
>
> 3.99.2.1 on Linux: works
> 3.99.2.2 on Windows: works (n.b. filename is x2goclient-3.99.2.1-setup.exe)
> 4.0.0.3 on Windows: affected
> 4.0.1.1 on Linux: works
>
> Server side versions are:
> x2goagent: 3.5.0.21
> x2goserver: 4.0.1.6
> x2goserver-xsession: 4.0.1.6
>
>
> Can anybody confirm that this is something which has been fixed in client
> 4.0.1? If so, when is there going to be a 4.0.1 client for Windows? (In the
> meantime, we're downgrading our Windows users to 3.99.)


I have had the same problem on Windows client versions 4.0.1.0 and
4.0.0.3 for quite a while now. There does NOT appear to be a Windows
binary version 4.0.1.1 available for download.

One thing that usually works is to restart the server process (I am
running the systemd x2goserver 4.0.1.6-1). Then I will be able to
resume a session that previously hung the windows client.

Another odd thing that I have noticed with the Windows client is that
sometimes when I click on a session, it brings up the dialog box
showing a suspended session, but the resume button is greyed out and
does not respond. Still, I can double-click on the session line in the
list and it tries to resume, but it will often hang if it has been
suspended for several hours (same behavior you noted). Then I restart
x2goserver.service, and I can resume the session.