[X2Go-User] X2Go on CentOS 6.2 with PyHoca as Client

[Lukas Laukamp]

Am 18.06.2012 18:34, schrieb John A. Sullivan III:
> On Sat, 2012-06-16 at 13:54 +0200, Lukas Laukamp wrote:
>> Hey all,
>>
>> I want to use X2Go at CentOS 6.2. So I installed a KVM virtual maschine
>> with a CentOS 6.2 minimal system. I installed GNOME and X11 with a yum
>> groupinstall command like follows:
>>
>> yum groupinstall "Desktop" "Desktop Platform" "X Window System" "Fonts"
>>
>> Than I added the RHEL6 X2Go Rep which is listed at the X2Go Page
>> (http://www.x2go.org/doku.php/external:linux-distributions).
>>
>> Than I installed x2goserver, python-x2go and x2gognomebindings like
>> follows:
>>
>> yum install x2goserver python-x2go x2gognomebindings
>>
>> After this I added a profil in PyHoca, to connect to the server and
>> tried to start a GNOME session. PyHoca says that it starts the session
>> and immediatly after the startup it says that the session is shut down.
>> So PyHoca doesn't get to the point that it start a session window or
>> something like that it directly shut down the session.
>>
>> The only thing I found on a logfile (/var/log/messages) is that the
>> session got start correctly. Here is the log entry:
>>
>> Jun 15 20:45:45 testdom0 /usr/bin/x2gostartagent: successfully started
>> X2Go agent session with ID lukas-51-1339785943_stDGNOME_dp17
>> Jun 15 20:45:49 testdom0 /usr/bin/x2goruncommand: launching session with
>> Xsession-x2go mechanism, using STARTUP="gnome-session"
>>
>> There is no more information in the logfiles, no errors, no warnings or
>> something like that.
>>
>> Does someone have a working x2goserver on CentOS and can explain what to
>> do to get it running with PyHoca as client? Or can someone give me
>> information where the error could be located?
> <snip>
> I do not know if this is still an issue with the newer versions but, in
> older versions of X2Go Server on some distributions, one needed to have
> started X before hand.  We never fully resolved the issue but it wasn't
> that X had to be running.  It was that starting X started some process
> which X2Go needed but could not start as a non-privileged user.  If you
> start X from the console, even if it fails, does that now enable you to
> connect using X2Go Client? - John
>

Hello John,

I have set the system from runlevel 3 to 5 so that X is running and then 
I can connect to the x2goserver and the session starts. So it seems that 
it was the problem which you have explained that the x2goserver can't 
start the X session correctly and so the session directly get closed.

I want to thank you for the help and only can say to all developers, 
supports and contributers do further such a good work. The support for 
different distributions seems to grow now and I only can say that X2Go 
is the most useful tool which I use everyday.

Best Regards