Where on Windows does x2go client store its settings? I removed the /Users/loginname/.x2go directory but when I start X2Go client I still see the sessions I defined. I also uninstalled X2Go and reinstalled but the old session settings are still there.
We did a profile migration between domains on the user's files and after that was done x2go stopped working. we are trying to start with a clean slate on the user. Whe she tries to start a session it just hangs forever on status connecting with no text in the log/debug window. If you go into edit sessions several buttons are grayed out include delete so we cannot delete the old sessions. If I make a new session it still does not work.
Paul Raines http://help.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu MGH/MIT/HMS Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging 149 (2301) 13th Street Charlestown, MA 02129 USA
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Hi Paul,
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On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 4:40 PM, Paul Raines <raines@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> wrote:
Where on Windows does x2go client store its settings? I removed the /Users/loginname/.x2go directory but when I start X2Go client I still see the sessions I defined. I also uninstalled X2Go and reinstalled but the old session settings are still there.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Obviously Nice\x2goclient\
We did a profile migration between domains on the user's files and after that was done x2go stopped working. we are trying to start with a clean slate on the user. Whe she tries to start a session it just hangs forever on status connecting with no text in the log/debug window. If you go into edit sessions several buttons are grayed out include delete so we cannot delete the old sessions. If I make a new session it still does not work.
Sorry to hear that you are running into this issue.
Let us know if deleting the registry key works. If not, please try the debug build and attach the output from the command prompt window. (The debug build is now an optional component in the regular installer as of X2Go Client for Windows 4.0.4.0-x.)
-Mike#2
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Am 15.07.2015 um 22:40 schrieb Paul Raines:
Please do what Mike DePaulo suggested.
Also, a few notes, remarks, and questions from me:
We did a profile migration between domains on the user's files and after that was done x2go stopped working.
Does this new domain have a lot of groups? Does X2Go work for new users there? We recently saw an issue where having a large number of groups (no matter whether the user was a member of them or not) caused a significant delay during the login phase. This issue has been identified and fixed, however, I would have to check with Mihai Moldovan if those fixes are already part of a release.
[...] Whe she tries to start a session it just hangs forever on status connecting with no text in the log/debug window.
Did you wait maybe 5 minutes, or do you have a shorter definition of "forever"? ;-)
The issue described above caused a delay of maybe 3 minutes for that particular user, though that heavily depends on the number of groups involved, so it might take even longer for you.
If you go into edit sessions several buttons are grayed out include delete so we cannot delete the old sessions. If I make a new session it still does not work.
This, however, sounds like the user doesn't have the proper access rights on the registry tree mentioned by Mike DePaulo.
Also, note that you can run x2goclient.exe with the parameter
- --portable, and it will create a sessions file just like on OS X and Linux.
BTW, nice to see that Harvard is using X2Go. Care to tell us a little bit about how you're using it? We have a wiki page for "success stories", and being able to mention Harvard there would be absolutely fantastic. :-)
Kind Regards, Stefan
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The user has 4.0.3.2 installed on Win7 box.
The connection problem turns out to be linux server side. After killing all x2go related processon that box and then restarting x2gocleansessions service the connections worked.
We deleted the registry key and that wiped all the sessions we had defined. But the UI issue continues. We create a new session. Then go to the Session Managment dialog and all buttons are greyed out but the top one to create new sessions even after selecting the session on the left. We can double click on the session on the left to edit. So the only thing we cannot do someway or other is delete (well, beside wiping out everything in the registry key).
This could have been the case even before the profile migration and we just didn't notice before. So that might be a red herring.
Anyway, the user has no need to delete sessions at this time so is fine with the way things are now.
I am the IT manager for the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging which is a joint research center of Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Harvard HST and MIT BCS. We have over 300+ Linux workstations at users desks for our imaging analysis. Up until around 2008 users would use VNC for remote graphical access, then we started using freeNX and more recently X2Go. The primary analysis tools are MATLAB and FreeSurfer (http://freesurfer.net)
-- Paul Raines (http://help.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu)
On Thu, 16 Jul 2015 8:44am, Stefan Baur wrote:
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Am 15.07.2015 um 22:40 schrieb Paul Raines:
Please do what Mike DePaulo suggested.
Also, a few notes, remarks, and questions from me:
We did a profile migration between domains on the user's files and after that was done x2go stopped working.
Does this new domain have a lot of groups? Does X2Go work for new users there? We recently saw an issue where having a large number of groups (no matter whether the user was a member of them or not) caused a significant delay during the login phase. This issue has been identified and fixed, however, I would have to check with Mihai Moldovan if those fixes are already part of a release.
[...] Whe she tries to start a session it just hangs forever on status connecting with no text in the log/debug window.
Did you wait maybe 5 minutes, or do you have a shorter definition of "forever"? ;-)
The issue described above caused a delay of maybe 3 minutes for that particular user, though that heavily depends on the number of groups involved, so it might take even longer for you.
If you go into edit sessions several buttons are grayed out include delete so we cannot delete the old sessions. If I make a new session it still does not work.
This, however, sounds like the user doesn't have the proper access rights on the registry tree mentioned by Mike DePaulo.
Also, note that you can run x2goclient.exe with the parameter
- --portable, and it will create a sessions file just like on OS X and Linux.
BTW, nice to see that Harvard is using X2Go. Care to tell us a little bit about how you're using it? We have a wiki page for "success stories", and being able to mention Harvard there would be absolutely fantastic. :-)
Kind Regards, Stefan
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Hello!
I have the same problem.
I try to set another X server for x2go, but after that x2go can't start )) I try to delete it. Delete everything about x2go from "programs files" - don't work.
delete .x2go folder from user directory - don't work ) install and reinstall it again - don't work. after reinstalled i try to use ccleaner - it cleans the registry, after reboot, I installed x2go again but my misconfig still here and I can't use x2go (
I have troubles with keyboard. When I connect to linux server - I can't change ceyboard from en to ru, and numlock dont work. I don't really like windows. But I can't work with linux server via GUI ( I go to install windows server and will use RDP (
2015-07-17 1:46 GMT+03:00 Paul Raines <raines@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>:
The user has 4.0.3.2 installed on Win7 box.
The connection problem turns out to be linux server side. After killing all x2go related processon that box and then restarting x2gocleansessions service the connections worked.
We deleted the registry key and that wiped all the sessions we had defined. But the UI issue continues. We create a new session. Then go to the Session Managment dialog and all buttons are greyed out but the top one to create new sessions even after selecting the session on the left. We can double click on the session on the left to edit. So the only thing we cannot do someway or other is delete (well, beside wiping out everything in the registry key).
This could have been the case even before the profile migration and we just didn't notice before. So that might be a red herring.
Anyway, the user has no need to delete sessions at this time so is fine with the way things are now.
I am the IT manager for the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging which is a joint research center of Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Harvard HST and MIT BCS. We have over 300+ Linux workstations at users desks for our imaging analysis. Up until around 2008 users would use VNC for remote graphical access, then we started using freeNX and more recently X2Go. The primary analysis tools are MATLAB and FreeSurfer (http://freesurfer.net)
-- Paul Raines (http://help.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu)
On Thu, 16 Jul 2015 8:44am, Stefan Baur wrote:
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Am 15.07.2015 um 22:40 schrieb Paul Raines:
Please do what Mike DePaulo suggested.
Also, a few notes, remarks, and questions from me:
We did a profile migration between domains on the user's files and
after that was done x2go stopped working.
Does this new domain have a lot of groups? Does X2Go work for new users there? We recently saw an issue where having a large number of groups (no matter whether the user was a member of them or not) caused a significant delay during the login phase. This issue has been identified and fixed, however, I would have to check with Mihai Moldovan if those fixes are already part of a release.
[...] Whe she tries to start a session it just hangs forever on
status connecting with no text in the log/debug window.
Did you wait maybe 5 minutes, or do you have a shorter definition of "forever"? ;-)
The issue described above caused a delay of maybe 3 minutes for that particular user, though that heavily depends on the number of groups involved, so it might take even longer for you.
If you go into edit sessions several buttons are grayed out include
delete so we cannot delete the old sessions. If I make a new session it still does not work.
This, however, sounds like the user doesn't have the proper access rights on the registry tree mentioned by Mike DePaulo.
Also, note that you can run x2goclient.exe with the parameter
- --portable, and it will create a sessions file just like on OS X and Linux.
BTW, nice to see that Harvard is using X2Go. Care to tell us a little bit about how you're using it? We have a wiki page for "success stories", and being able to mention Harvard there would be absolutely fantastic. :-)
Kind Regards, Stefan
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Am 17.07.2015 um 08:46 schrieb Николай:
I have the same problem.
I'm not so sure about that being the same problem.
I try to set another X server for x2go, but after that x2go can't start )) I try to delete it. Delete everything about x2go from "programs files" - don't work. + delete .x2go folder from user directory - don't work ) install and reinstall it again - don't work. after reinstalled i try to use ccleaner - it cleans the registry, after reboot, I installed x2go again but my misconfig still here and I can't use x2go (
That isn't how CCleaner works. Also, I would strongly advise against using any registry cleaner, most of them are just making things worse.
What I would suggest is that you
- Make sure X2GoClient isn't in RAM (preferably by rebooting the machine or checking the task manager for x2go-related task names).
- Manually run regedit.exe as an administrator, navigate to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Obviously Nice\x2goclient
and delete that entire tree - Close regedit and start X2GoClient.
Also, you might want to make sure you are using the latest X2GoClient for Windows release that is available. The issue you are describing (misconfiguring an external X-Server and being unable to change things back) sounds like a bug we had in an older release, but that has been fixed in the meantime. At least I didn't run into it any more when I made the same mistake a short while ago. I think credit goes to Mike DePaulo for fixing that.
- I have troubles with keyboard. When I connect to linux server - I can't change ceyboard from en to ru, and numlock dont work. I don't really like windows. But I can't work with linux server via GUI ( I go to install windows server and will use RDP (
For that, please try out the suggestion by Putin and report back if it helped or not.
Kind Regards, Stefan
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On Sat, 18 Jul 2015, Stefan Baur wrote:
That isn't how CCleaner works. Also, I would strongly advise against using any registry cleaner, most of them are just making things worse.
I've used CCleaner on an old XP machine for years and it's never toastedX2Go or anything else unintentionally.
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Am 18.07.2015 um 22:25 schrieb Robert Dinse:
That isn't how CCleaner works. Also, I would strongly advise against using any registry cleaner, most of them are just making things worse.
I've used CCleaner on an old XP machine for years and it's never toasted X2Go or anything else unintentionally.
You are aware that registry cleaners promise to clean up registry entries left behind by uninstalled programs, and even if they would be 100% accurate in that, it would not have helped the original poster, *as he had X2GoClient (re)installed at the time he ran CCleaner*?
OT: For a short, but very comprehensive FAQ on registry cleaners and why you should not use them, visit http://decentsecurity.com/registry-cleaners/
Kind Regards, Stefan
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On Sat, 18 Jul 2015, Stefan Baur wrote:
You are aware that registry cleaners promise to clean up registry entries left behind by uninstalled programs, and even if they would be 100% accurate in that, it would not have helped the original poster, *as he had X2GoClient (re)installed at the time he ran CCleaner*?
I am aare that what the original poster did was a good way to toastthe registry or at least those entries relavent to X2GoClient.
That said, that is what I've used CCleaner for, to clean up afteruninstalled programs and it's never for me cleaned up things it shouldn't and I've used it over many years. I think it's one of the better ones out there in terms of not getting things wrong.
I'm honestly not trying to start a big argument over it, it just happensto be a program I'm familiar with, have used long term, and unlike a number of similar products, never had problems with it.
I will preface that this whole post is basically OT: That FAQ entry is basically a longer assertion of truth with no actual explanation as to why what is asserted is true, nor any references to any authority or company I recognize as having particular Microsoft Windows OS level insight. I.e. Wikipedia would say that article [citation needed].
That said, the OP would clearly not be helped by a registry cleaner, this seems obvious precisely because of your point that X2Go was *installed* at the time the cleaner was run.
I'm not anyone with special insight, nor have I done a study, but in my personal experience, Registry cleaners like CCleaner have never hurt a Windows computer in any noticeable way. That said, I haven't seen them help noticeably either. To me, the concept is plausible, like defragmenting your disk - but on modern equipment, it rarely makes much difference in the vast majority of cases. And the only possible improvement might be a slight performance improvement - what Registry cleaners do doesn't fix specific issues as far as I can tell. For an almost obligatory automobile analogy, changing your transmission fluid(registry cleaner) is a different sort of thing than rebuilding your transmission(professional registry alterations to address very specific issues).
-- James Pulver CLASSE Computer Group Cornell University
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Am 18.07.2015 um 22:25 schrieb Robert Dinse:
That isn't how CCleaner works. Also, I would strongly advise against using any registry cleaner, most of them are just making things worse.
I've used CCleaner on an old XP machine for years and it's never toasted X2Go or anything else unintentionally.
You are aware that registry cleaners promise to clean up registry entries left behind by uninstalled programs, and even if they would be 100% accurate in that, it would not have helped the original poster, *as he had X2GoClient (re)installed at the time he ran CCleaner*?
OT: For a short, but very comprehensive FAQ on registry cleaners and why you should not use them, visit http://decentsecurity.com/registry-cleaners/
Kind Regards, Stefan
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Am 20.07.2015 um 14:31 schrieb James M. Pulver:
I'm not anyone with special insight, nor have I done a study, but in my personal experience, Registry cleaners like CCleaner have never hurt a Windows computer in any noticeable way. That said, I haven't seen them help noticeably either. To me, the concept is plausible, like defragmenting your disk - but on modern equipment, it rarely makes much difference in the vast majority of cases. And the only possible improvement might be a slight performance improvement - what Registry cleaners do doesn't fix specific issues as far as I can tell. For an almost obligatory automobile analogy, changing your transmission fluid(registry cleaner) is a different sort of thing than rebuilding your transmission(professional registry alterations to address very specific issues).
Well, sorry, your personal experience is just anecdotal experience and not considered a reliable source by Wikipedia standards, either. ;-) So here's a [citation needed] for you, too. ;-)
I can say I've seen more than just one machine that some clueless user had issues with, tried to fix them by applying some more or less shady registry cleaner, and botching the machine even further, to the point that it wouldn't even boot into Windows anymore, BSOD'ing or getting stuck in the "Loading Windows" screen.
That's because even the most well-meaning registry cleaners try to apply certain, well, let's call them "standard procedures". They will work, or at least cause no further harm, on a standard machine - but if the user (or even some driver installation, say, for a FakeRAID controller or some special Intel chipset rather than the standard SATA/PATA driver) previously tweaked the registry in a way the tool doesn't expect, things are going south.
And yes, I've seen that happen. More than once. Usually with people of the "clueless tinkerer" kind, that installed every performance-tuning tool and registry patch they could find in the computer magazine of their choice.
Which may explain why you didn't encounter it - in your environment, machines are probably centrally managed and most users don't have the rights to mess with the registry or to install "performance tuning" tools, so if anybody ever uses a registry cleaner, it's someone from your IT staff with at least a little bit of a clue of what they're doing, and they're operating on a standardized Windows installation, not one that has been messed with over and over before.
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I've found them useful for things like removing keys drivers install,particularly if I'm messing around with things like overclocking video cards.
All that said, has anybody else noticed any general flakiness in eitherX2Go or NX since the last set of nx-libs updates? I'm getting, with both NX and X2Go, situations where it connects then immediately disconnects. I'll connect back in, then it will be fine.
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On Mon, 20 Jul 2015, Stefan Baur wrote:
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 23:07:50 +0200 From: Stefan Baur <X2Go-ML-1@baur-itcs.de> To: x2go-user@lists.x2go.org Subject: [X2Go-User] [OT] Registry Cleaners (was: where are settings stored on Windows)
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Am 20.07.2015 um 14:31 schrieb James M. Pulver:
I'm not anyone with special insight, nor have I done a study, but in my personal experience, Registry cleaners like CCleaner have never hurt a Windows computer in any noticeable way. That said, I haven't seen them help noticeably either. To me, the concept is plausible, like defragmenting your disk - but on modern equipment, it rarely makes much difference in the vast majority of cases. And the only possible improvement might be a slight performance improvement - what Registry cleaners do doesn't fix specific issues as far as I can tell. For an almost obligatory automobile analogy, changing your transmission fluid(registry cleaner) is a different sort of thing than rebuilding your transmission(professional registry alterations to address very specific issues).
Well, sorry, your personal experience is just anecdotal experience and not considered a reliable source by Wikipedia standards, either. ;-) So here's a [citation needed] for you, too. ;-)
I can say I've seen more than just one machine that some clueless user had issues with, tried to fix them by applying some more or less shady registry cleaner, and botching the machine even further, to the point that it wouldn't even boot into Windows anymore, BSOD'ing or getting stuck in the "Loading Windows" screen.
That's because even the most well-meaning registry cleaners try to apply certain, well, let's call them "standard procedures". They will work, or at least cause no further harm, on a standard machine - but if the user (or even some driver installation, say, for a FakeRAID controller or some special Intel chipset rather than the standard SATA/PATA driver) previously tweaked the registry in a way the tool doesn't expect, things are going south.
And yes, I've seen that happen. More than once. Usually with people of the "clueless tinkerer" kind, that installed every performance-tuning tool and registry patch they could find in the computer magazine of their choice.
Which may explain why you didn't encounter it - in your environment, machines are probably centrally managed and most users don't have the rights to mess with the registry or to install "performance tuning" tools, so if anybody ever uses a registry cleaner, it's someone from your IT staff with at least a little bit of a clue of what they're doing, and they're operating on a standardized Windows installation, not one that has been messed with over and over before.
Kind Regards, Stefan
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On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 5:07 PM, Stefan Baur <X2Go-ML-1@baur-itcs.de> wrote:
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Am 20.07.2015 um 14:31 schrieb James M. Pulver:
I'm not anyone with special insight, nor have I done a study, but in my personal experience, Registry cleaners like CCleaner have never hurt a Windows computer in any noticeable way. That said, I haven't seen them help noticeably either. To me, the concept is plausible, like defragmenting your disk - but on modern equipment, it rarely makes much difference in the vast majority of cases. And the only possible improvement might be a slight performance improvement - what Registry cleaners do doesn't fix specific issues as far as I can tell. For an almost obligatory automobile analogy, changing your transmission fluid(registry cleaner) is a different sort of thing than rebuilding your transmission(professional registry alterations to address very specific issues).
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Remember that CCleaner is a bunch of tools in one application.
There's the regular "Cleaner", as seen here: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9N3zmmn7mUw/Uqw4V11u2eI/AAAAAAAABfc/gLFAX0Um4qY/s1...
The regular "Cleaner" is not a registry cleaner.
The Registry cleaning is under the "Registry" tab. http://computeropschonen.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/screenshot-ccleaner....
Then there's the 6 other tools (newer versions added "Disk Analyzer" too): http://betanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/ccleaner.jpg
Usually when someone says "I ran CCleaner", they ran the regular "Cleaner" and not the Registry Cleaner.
-Mike
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Am 17.07.2015 um 00:46 schrieb Paul Raines:
We deleted the registry key and that wiped all the sessions we had defined. But the UI issue continues. We create a new session. Then go to the Session Managment dialog and all buttons are greyed out but the top one to create new sessions even after selecting the session on the left. We can double click on the session on the left to edit. So the only thing we cannot do someway or other is delete (well, beside wiping out everything in the registry key).
This could have been the case even before the profile migration and we just didn't notice before. So that might be a red herring.
Anyway, the user has no need to delete sessions at this time so is fine with the way things are now.
This still sounds rather weird. Could you please create a new user account in the same domain and check if that account experiences the same issues?
- -Stefan
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After logging in as a new user on the machine and starting X2Go client, we did not see the problem with the always greyed out delete button in Session Management.
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On Sat, 18 Jul 2015 7:36am, Stefan Baur wrote:
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Am 17.07.2015 um 00:46 schrieb Paul Raines:
We deleted the registry key and that wiped all the sessions we had defined. But the UI issue continues. We create a new session. Then go to the Session Managment dialog and all buttons are greyed out but the top one to create new sessions even after selecting the session on the left. We can double click on the session on the left to edit. So the only thing we cannot do someway or other is delete (well, beside wiping out everything in the registry key).
This could have been the case even before the profile migration and we just didn't notice before. So that might be a red herring.
Anyway, the user has no need to delete sessions at this time so is fine with the way things are now.
This still sounds rather weird. Could you please create a new user account in the same domain and check if that account experiences the same issues?
- -Stefan
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Am 20.07.2015 um 22:40 schrieb Paul Raines:
After logging in as a new user on the machine and starting X2Go client, we did not see the problem with the always greyed out delete button in Session Management.
That sure sounds like something went belly-up during your domain migration of the user you saw the issue with.
You might want to check with your domain admins for a) Group Policy settings that differ between those two accounts b) Permissions/Ownerships *of the registry entries* for X2Go.
Also, with the affected user, try running x2goclient.exe --portable so it creates a sessions file instead of using the registry - would be interesting to see if the items remain greyed out even in portable mode.
Kind Regards, Stefan
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On 16.07.2015 02:44 PM, Stefan Baur wrote:
Does this new domain have a lot of groups? Does X2Go work for new users there? We recently saw an issue where having a large number of groups (no matter whether the user was a member of them or not) caused a significant delay during the login phase. This issue has been identified and fixed, however, I would have to check with Mihai Moldovan if those fixes are already part of a release.
It's not yet part of an official release yet.
Mihai
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