[X2go-dev] [SOLVED] Re: Problems on Debian Squeeze

[John A. Sullivan III]

On Sun, 2010-05-30 at 22:24 -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> Is there any special magic to running X2Go on Debian Squeeze? We
> upgraded an x2goserver to Squeeze from Lenny and we can no longer
> connect.  The X2Go client just says connecting.
> 
> We can see the ssh sessions are established and it looks like
> x2gostartagent is running.  The database is set up and running.  The
> users are members of x2gousers, fuse, various pulse groups.  We changed
> the default shell from dash to bash as, if I recall correctly, there are
> functions in the X2Go bash scripts that are not supported in dash.  We
> reinstalled X2Go after remembering that.  We deleted all the
> old .Xauthority files.  We double-checked /etc/ssh/sshd_config to ensure
> we had X11 Forwarding enabled.  We can run X apps like xterm and kate
> via an ssh connection.  I'm not entirely sure where to look next without
> major troubleshooting.
> 
> Is anyone using X2Go on Squeeze successfully? Thanks - John
<snip>
Argh!!! Must have been a finger cramp on my part.  The delimiters for
the users in /etc/group were "." instead of ",".  Once that was fixed,
sudo could work properly for members of x2gousers and all worked as
expected - John