Hi Ulli,
I tried to move .bashrc out of the way, this did not solve the problem. Also moving .bashrc and .profile out of the way did not help. I am not sure if stale mounts can cause this problem, because I am still able to open a remote shell via ssh.
Best Thomas
Am 30.09.19 um 15:06 schrieb Ulrich Sibiller:
Hi,
we use x2go for multiple users to connect to workstations running Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS. Clients run on MacOSX or Windows machines. After using the setup for some days with multiple reconnects, for unknown reasons we can no longer open terminal applications via these remote-desktops. This applies to all terminal applications like UXTerm, Xfce Terminal, XTerm, etc. We can still perfectly open a file manager, or e.g. Matlab and work with those. We can also no longer close the session because the confirmation dialog to confirm user logout does not appear. It seems like there is a terminal process started every time we start a terminal via the desktop GUI. But the window does not show up. After rebooting the workstation, everything works fine again, terminals can be opened, logout confirmation dialog pops up. This looks to me how a shell accessing a stale mount. When then
On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 1:19 PM Thomas Stephan <Thomas.Stephan@lrz.uni-muenchen.de> wrote: problem shows up next time (temporarily) mv your .bashrc out of the way and try to open an terminal.
Uli
BTW: are the home dirs local on the server or mounted via NFS?