This is getting worse. Now, for reasons I don't understand, my client session freezes. Eventually it pops up a window saying the server is not responding and asks me if I want to terminate the session. I say yes. Nothing happens.
Then I go back to the main X2Go client window and hit the "terminate"
button (the round one in the lower right of the gray rectangular window
inside the blue area). It asks if I want to terminate. I say yes.
Nothing happens.
Eventually another window pops up and tells me the server session has
been killed, and indeed that window goes away. Now the client is stuck
in a mode with a rotating wheel and a message "x2goclient.exe has
stopped working" and a button: "Close program". I hit that button and
it finally all goes away.
So then I try again from scratch. Immediately get a popup: "Socket error: Unknown error". I hit OK. Hit "Cancel". Try again. Now it's hung (no message, no session). Only way to kill it is via the big red X in the upper right of the client window.
- Pete
On 01/14/2015 10:31 AM, Stefan Baur wrote:
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Am 14.01.2015 um 19:01 schrieb Peter Brodsky:
For example, I mistakenly try to open a session to a (linux) server which is not powered up, the (Windows) client simply sits and tries. There's no way to cancel. Clicking on the small round on/off button in the session window (the rectangular one that lands in the left/blue area) does not take. I simply have to wait until it times out. Could this not be dealt with more actively? Obviously this is a "don't do that" kind of thing, but it does happen. You could file a wishlist bug for that, and see if one of our volunteer devs picks up on it, or someone steps up and offers to fix it for a price.
To do so, send an eMail to submit@bugs.x2go.org, subject: something descriptive, like "add cancel button for 'connecting' phase", first two lines of the eMail must be ... package: x2goclient severity: wishlist
leave one blank line after that, just like I did here, then add a description, e.g. you could just copy and paste the paragraph of your eMail that I quoted above.
Also, if the server is shut down from the client window (which is the case for us because we're effectively headless), then the client "sort of" hangs again. Trying to kill the active session window by clicking the red X in the upper right does nothing. Eventually I get a notice that the server is incommunicado and asks if I want to terminate th current session. Would be nice if there were a cleaner way to handle this. Well, ordinary users should not be able to shut down the server remotely. So for our regular use cases, this isn't an issue.
To shut down the server remotely, assuming you have sufficient permissions, I would suggest the following script on the server (you can place a shortcut to it on the desktop if you like), probably best stored in /usr/local/sbin/ or /usr/local/bin/:
#!/bin/bash (sleep 10 && poweroff) & disown x2goterminate-session
If the account you're using for X2Go remoting doesn't have sufficient permissions to run the poweroff command, I suggest installing sudo (if not already present) and setting it up in a way that your account may run "poweroff" without having to authenticate first. In that case, you need to use sleep 10 && sudo poweroff inside the brackets in the above script. (Note that I haven't tested this, but this is how it should work)
The sleep 10 && poweroff tells your server to wait 10 seconds before it starts powering down. The brackets and the ampersand cause the job to run in the background. The disown tells your server to keep executing the backgrounded task even if the session disconnects. The x2goterminate-session is basically the suicide command for your running X2Go session.
- -Stefan
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