[X2go-User] how to completely remove/purge and reinstall

[John A. Sullivan III]

On Mon, 2012-01-16 at 18:43 -0500, Richard Strysniewicz wrote:
> I have been using x2goserver on one ubuntu 10.10 machine and accessing
> that from two other ubuntu 10.10 machines on the same LAN using
> x2goclient for many months with no issues.  Late last year I started
> having issues reconnecting to existing sessions.  I would like to
> remove/purge and reinstall everything to see if that clears my issues.
> What I have done so far is as follows, need I do anything else?
> 
> server:
> apt-get remove --purge x2goserver
> rm -rf ~/.x2go
> ps -ef | grep x2go, then kill all processes listed
> apt-get install x2goserver
> 
> clients:
> apt-get remove --purge x2goclient
> rm -rf ~/.x2go
> rm -rf ~/.x2goclient
> ps -ef | grep x2go, then kill all processes listed
> apt-get install x2goclient
> 
> I tried the above and I get the same reconnection issues with my new
> installs.  I'm hoping there is something I am missing that needs to be
> deleted/purged/uninstalled.
> 
> FWIW, my reconnection issues are a seemingly random number of the
> following messages before I am able to reconnect to an existing
> session:
> 
> X2Go - 53 The connection with the remote server was shut down. Please
> check the state of your network connection.
> Error Connection failed channel_open_session failed - Writing packet:
> error on socket (or connection closed): Success
> 
> If I try long enough (sometimes more than 10 time) the connection will
> eventually succeed.
> 
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Just a hunch - I wonder if there is an underlying SSH problem - John