Am 28.11.2016 um 23:31 schrieb Jordan Poppenk:

Package: x2goclient (mac) Version: 4.0.5.2

Above is my best guess as to the affected package, although I am not certain it is on the client end. Also, my issue is similar to the one reported here: http://lists.x2go.org/pipermail/x2go-dev/2015-October/010734.html ...but that thread concludes without a solution that works for me.

x2go had been working for a dozen users of my server. One day, two of the users reported that they were no longer able to log in -- they were kicked back to the login screen after entering their ssh private key encryption password. After entering this, the users get the result:

• Session: Session session started at: (date)
• Warning: Protocol mismatch or no X authentication data.
• Session: Terminating session at (date)
• Info: Your session was closed before reaching a usable state.
• Info: This can be due to the local X server refusing access to the client.
• Info: Please check authorization provided by the remote X application.
• Session: Session terminated at (date) Sometimes, they are presented with a list of sessions that shows their "running" session. It allows them to terminate the session, then brings them back to the screen where they would terminate the session.

It is worth noting that their configuration was previously working. Also, I am sometimes able to fix issues like this by deleting the user's .Xauthority files, their .x2go folder, and their cache/lxsession folder; and rebooting. In this case, none of these things influenced the outcome of their login attempts. But, many other users are still able to access x2go normally on the same machine.

What happens when you, as root, execute:

x2golistsessions_root

Do you see the "hung" sessions of your users?

What happens when you terminate them using

(again, as root, and preferably not in an X2Go session yourself)

x2goterminate-session <sessionid>

(<sessionid> is what you see in the second output column of x2golistsessions_root)

Does it work for them afterwards?

What happens when you set up a separate test server with X2Go on it, can they connect to that one, or are they having issues with it as well?

Jordan Poppenk, Ph.D. Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Neuroimaging Department of Psychology and Centre for Neuroscience Studies Queen's University http://popmem.com 613-533-6009

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First, a warning: X2Go does have options for image compression, like using JPG and/or PNG. Not all image compression algorithms are lossless, and thus there may be artifacts in the images (i.e. the image displayed through X2Go may look slightly different than what it would look like on a regular X-Server screen), depending on which algorithm and which compression level you choose. Is that something you're aware of?

If you're using fMRI/X-Ray/Mammography/... images displayed through X2Go for clinical purposes (deciding whether a certain patient requires a surgery etc.), you should absolutely make sure that you're using a lossless compression or no compression at all, or else you might be seeing things that aren't actually there, or missing things that are there.

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