On Wed, 2012-06-06 at 08:07 +0200, Mike Gabriel wrote:
Hi Burnce,
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4.2) On a server with gnome installed, but no complete X
installation, creating a connection fails (session terminates during
session start procedure with no clear error message). It turns out
that with X installed and running (runlevel 5) x2go works properly.
At runlevel 3, even with all packages installed it does not work.
This differs from the free trial version of the commercial
NX-server. Is this the way it is supposed to work or is there a
service that is required and missing at runlevel 3?This is not so on Debian. If all packages mentioned in Debian control
files of x2goserver and x2goagent / libnx-x11 are installed (on
Debian/Ubuntu) then it is possible to draw in a minimal GNOME setup
(gnome-session package) and to use that with X2Go.http://code.x2go.org/gitweb?p=x2goserver.git;a=blob;f=debian/control http://code.x2go.org/gitweb?p=nx-libs.git;a=blob;f=debian/control
About the runlevel issue, I am not sure. Is SSH started on runlevel 3?
I guess so. Hmmm... Once you can login via SSH, X2Go login should
normally work as well...
<snip> I do not know if it is true in the latest versions but when we first tested with 3.0.1-5 on Debian, we found the X had to be started or X2Go would not work. I suspect the problem was not actually X but a permissions issue somewhere where the x2go client running as a non-root user was not able to start some process needed by X - John