[X2Go-User] Redhat, runlevels and visibility (x2goserver)

[John A. Sullivan III]

On Wed, 2012-06-06 at 08:07 +0200, Mike Gabriel wrote:
> Hi Burnce,
> 
<snip>
> > 4.2) On a server with gnome installed, but no complete X  
> > installation, creating a connection fails (session terminates during  
> > session start procedure with no clear error message). It turns out  
> > that with X installed and running (runlevel 5) x2go works properly.  
> > At runlevel 3, even with all packages installed it does not work.  
> > This differs from the free trial version of the commercial  
> > NX-server. Is this the way it is supposed to work or is there a  
> > service that is required and missing at runlevel 3?
> 
> This is not so on Debian. If all packages mentioned in Debian control  
> files of x2goserver and x2goagent / libnx-x11 are installed (on  
> Debian/Ubuntu) then it is possible to draw in a minimal GNOME setup  
> (gnome-session package) and to use that with X2Go.
> 
> http://code.x2go.org/gitweb?p=x2goserver.git;a=blob;f=debian/control
> http://code.x2go.org/gitweb?p=nx-libs.git;a=blob;f=debian/control
> 
> About the runlevel issue, I am not sure. Is SSH started on runlevel 3?  
> I guess so. Hmmm... Once you can login via SSH, X2Go login should  
> normally work as well...
> 
<snip>
I do not know if it is true in the latest versions but when we first
tested with 3.0.1-5 on Debian, we found the X had to be started or X2Go
would not work.  I suspect the problem was not actually X but a
permissions issue somewhere where the x2go client running as a non-root
user was not able to start some process needed by X - John