[X2Go-Dev] new version 4.1.1.0 from Mac still crashes to Fedora 26

[Ulrich Sibiller]

On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 5:15 PM, Mihai Moldovan <ionic at ionic.de> wrote:
> * On 11/16/2017 07:41 AM, Ulrich Sibiller wrote:
>> Fine! Now that we debugged this with ~60 mails we finally have a working system.
>> But to me it is still unclear what was causing the NIS problems!?

> The gist is that we should always add the X authorization cookie with the actual
> system host name, instead of using a shortname or the FQDN explicitly.
> Otherwise, X authorization might or might not work depending on other factors,
> but in most cases it will fail.

Thanks for clarification. But why not simply using all combinations in parallel?

> The second issue was due mixing old nx-libs packages with the newer Arctica
> version. Using x2goserver-x2goagent is very important with nx-libs 3.5.99.x+,
> since this package also implicitly disables the ld preloading hack we've been
> using for Xinerama support in the past. Using the ld preloading hack with
> nx-libs 3.5.99.x+ leads to such odd errors when applications try to utilize libX11.

alright, that's clear.

Maybe we should provide a script that checks common problems ans
collects required data to avoid pinging back and forth so often.

Uli