[X2go-user] Ubuntu 10.04 only black screen

[John A. Sullivan III]

On Fri, 2011-05-20 at 09:17 +0200, Vadim Bulst wrote:
> Hi John,
> 
> I followed your suggestions.
> 
> (1) sudo dpkg-reconfigure dash
> 
> changed to bash
> 
> root at cln05:~# ls -al /bin/sh
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2011-05-20 07:41 /bin/sh -> bash
> 
> Be the way - the default login shell of the user is /usr/bin/tcsh
> 
> So - no luck at all !
> 
> (2) I changed the default user shell to /bin/bash
> 
> And I was able to log in.
> 
> 
> Now - first of all I'm happy to get it working. But the default login shell of my users is tcsh and 
> all their scientific scripts are based on tcsh. So they won't change to /bin/bash.
> 
> I would be pleased - if somebody shows me a work around.
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Vadim
> 
Glad that worked.  The best solution (and one which I assume will be
implemented in the next x2goserver release) is to edit the x2go shell
scripts in /usr/bin/ (ls /usr/bin/x2go*) so that the shell is /bin/bash
instead of /bin/sh - John