Dear All,

I am following up with my previous post as I am still stuck and unable to use X2go.

I have a crashed session and I am unable to close.

Does anyone have any suggestion?

Thanks!

Ilaria

From: x2go-user <x2go-user-bounces@lists.x2go.org> On Behalf Of Ilaria Sani
Sent: Monday, November 15, 2021 12:06 PM
To: Ulrich Sibiller <uli42@gmx.de>
Cc: x2go-user@lists.x2go.org
Subject: Re: [X2Go-User] connection failed.

Thank you for your prompt reply!!!

Please, find my answers below

On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 10:57 AM Ilaria Sani <Ilaria.Sani@unige.ch> wrote:
> I have used it successfully for a couple of weeks.
>
> Then, once, I got the following error message while attempting login (windows10):
>
> Failed to start X2Go Agent session with ID xxxxxxx. X2Go Agent terminated unexpectedly. Aborting session startup.
>
> I tried to
>
> restart PC
> unistall-reinstall
> delete session-recreate session
> exit putty-re-entering
>
> I have no more attempts to do.
>
> I have used other clients before, and for one of those this sometimes would happen.

Sometime vcxsrv crashes and leaves the remote x2goagent in a bad state
which results in another crash of vcxsrv on reconnect. The only way to
fix that is to kill the remote session (the remote x2goagent process)
and start a new one. From your text it is unclear if you have tried
that.

I did the following in the x2go GUI: Session-session management-terminate session

I also uninstall and re-install X2go, but the crashed session was still there.

> What I was doing was to -kill geometry in putty and then re-do one.

What do you mean by that?

I was using a command line in putty terminal that would kill anything pending and then I was re-configuring the geometry upon the next re-start.

I do not remember exactly what the command line was about, but I remember it was using -kill and -geometry flag. 

Sorry I wish I could be more specific. Anyway I was using TightVNC and not X2go. Likely it does not applies.

> Is there something similar I can do here?

You can try to use mobaxterm to connect to your server and see if you
can run "x2goagent :1" there.  If that does not work, that's the
reason for the connection problems. If  it works, then we need to
search the problem elsewhere.

I cannot use mobaxterm, because my institution (and relative cluster I am trying to connect to) only supports X2go.

> I tried to visualize the Archive of this mailing list but I could not find a way to search previous posts.

see https://lists.x2go.org/listinfo/x2go-user respectively
https://lists.x2go.org/pipermail/x2go-user/

I had seen the list of Archived posts (https://lists.x2go.org/pipermail/x2go-user/).

I started searching by clicking on the first Thread or Subject, then the second, third, and so on...

I was wondering is there was a way to visualize them all in a long list so that one can ctrl-F keywords.

Thank you again for your kind support.

Ilaria