[X2Go-User] X authorization issues

[Michael DePaulo]

On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 6:42 PM, Christoph Schmidt-Hieber
<christsc at gmx.de> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 12:13:10AM +0200, Mihai Moldovan wrote:
>> On 10.04.2015 12:10 AM, Michael DePaulo wrote:
>> >
>> > What is your default shell on the server? I have seen various x2go
>> > problems (but not this exact problem) when it was set to /bin/tcsh (or
>> > a /bin/csh symlink to /bin/tcsh). I suspect that the actual legacy
>> > /bin/csh binary would behave even worse with x2go.
>> >
>>
>> We've figured the problem out privately. It was caused by a "exec bash"
>> statement at the end of ~/.profile for one user. Didn't take a look at
>> the other user, but I suspect the same thing there.
>
> I can confirm that removing "exec bash" from .profile solved the problem
> for the other user as well.
>
> Thanks a lot to Mihai for his extraordinarily fast and efficient help.

Good job Mihai.

This brings up an issue with our documentation though. We should
document (probably on our wiki) that a user's .bashrc / .profile /
.bash_profile file can interfere with X2Go. Perhaps we should update
the error message in x2goclient also.

-Mike#2