On 25 August 2016 at 10:07, Stefan Baur <X2Go-ML-1@baur-itcs.de> wrote:
Am 25.08.2016 um 11:01 schrieb Chris Collins:
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> So this is a CentOS7 system using SSSD for AD authentication, but using
> SSH keys
>
> Any ideas would be appreciated!

First idea: Set up an identical test system that uses plain
user/password or ssh pubkey auth only, see if it occurs there, too.

Second idea: Try to run a desktop environment instead of a single app.

I have a demo server here that runs CentOS7, plain user/pass or SSH
pubkey auth, and am running MATE as DE on it, no issues.

Hi Stefan,

Thanks for responding:

A few tests based on your suggestions:
- enabling password logins I get the same behaviour (client hang, lots of looping logs).
- Trying a desktop (this box is streamlined so I'm limited, but I installed Openbox), again exactly the same behaviour
- I can't easily add local accounts, but was able to permit root logins via SSH for a moment to test and suddenly x2go works for root. 

I should point out that SSH works fine. It does look then like it is related to SSSD / AD, and as I say it seems like the known fixed bug http://bugs.x2go.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=688

Looking at the following part of the logs

 /usr/lib64/x2go/x2gogetdisplays[ db_getdisplays called, server: login02; return value:

I don't know what this should be returning exactly, but if I run x2gogetdisplays login02 when x2go is 'running' (client hung) I got nothing returned. Without any x2go processes, I get

[root@login02 ~]# /usr/lib64/x2go/x2gogetdisplays login02
|50|

On a test VM I get the following response whether there are any x2go processes or not:

[root@wikitest ~]# /usr/lib64/x2go/x2gogetdisplays wikitest
|50|
|51| 

Thanks,

Chris