The cause of my problem was a configuration setting pointing to a "user defined X-server" which did not exist.

After changing to "integrated X-server" everything worked smoothly.

X-Server lässt sich nicht starten. Bitte überprüfen Sie Ihre Installation. (X-server cannot be started, please, check your installation.)

It would be helpful to change the popup to something like "X-server cannot be started, please, check your X-server configuration in the X2Go client."

Best regards

Heinrich

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Datum: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 18:20:01 -0400 Von: "John A. Sullivan III" <jsullivan@opensourcedevel.com> An: glpk xypron <xypron.glpk@gmx.de> CC: x2go-user@lists.berlios.de Betreff: Re: [X2Go-User] X-Server cannot be started

On Fri, 2012-08-24 at 23:03 +0200, glpk xypron wrote:

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Dear maintainer,

when I try to start x2goclient on Windows I get an error message:

X-Server lässt sich nicht starten. Bitte überprüfen Sie Ihre Installation. (X-server cannot be started, please, check your installation.)

Reinstalling x2goclient did not solve the problem.

Starting as administrator does not help either.

Please, advice how find the root cause.

<snip> If you manually start X (perhaps xinit) as root on the X2Go SERVER (it does not matter if it succeeds or fails), and then try to connect using X2Go client, does it work? - John