[X2Go-User] X authorization issues

Christoph Schmidt-Hieber christsc at gmx.de
Thu Apr 9 20:45:31 CEST 2015


Same issue with
4.1.0.0-0x2go1.1~git20150403.1278+wheezy.heuler.1

I don't think it's a client issue because we can connect to an x2go
server (xfce4) running on Ubuntu 14.04.

Any further ideas?

On Thu, Apr 09, 2015 at 08:24:58AM -0700, Robert Dinse wrote:
> 
>      I just tried this using the same client version, X2Go Client V. 4.0.3.2
> (Qt - 4.8.6), originating from a Ubuntu 14.10 system, and connecting to a
> Debian Wheezy server and got a full working xfce desktop.
> 
>      The version of server on Wheezy is
> 4.1.0.0-0x2go1.1~git20150403.1278+wheezy+hueler.1 so perhaps you may want to
> try updating your server to this version (the most recent) and see if that
> resolves your problem.
> 
>      If you need a test account to determine if it is an issue with your
> client side setup or server, let me know.
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> On Thu, 9 Apr 2015, Christoph Schmidt-Hieber wrote:
> 
> >Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2015 13:54:28 +0100
> >From: Christoph Schmidt-Hieber <christsc at gmx.de>
> >To: x2go-user at lists.x2go.org
> >Subject: [X2Go-User] X authorization issues
> >
> >Dear all,
> >
> >We're having issues connecting to an x2go server running on Debian
> >Wheezy. Specifically, we cannot connect to an xfce4 desktop from an OS
> >X client.
> >
> >The x2go client version is 4.0.3.2 (from MacPorts).
> >The x2go server version is 4.0.1.19-0x2go2+git20150326.1064+wheezy.main.1
> >(from the x2go Debian repo)
> >
> >Connections using plain "ssh -Y" or "ssh -X" work fine.
> >
> >Connections with x2go to a single application work fine.
> >
> >The permissions of $HOME/.Xauthority are 600
> >
> >The owner of  $HOME/.Xauthority is $USER:$USER
> >
> >The first attempt to connect will simply fail, without valuable error
> >messages (at least to me), the second attempt will result in:
> >
> >"Your session was closed before reaching a usable state.
> >This can be due to the local X server refusing access to the client.
> >Please check authorization provided by the remote X application."
> >
> >Debug output from the client is attached.
> >
> >Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> >Christoph


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