[X2Go-User] Problem connecting from Mac to Linux

[Darby Vicker]

You were right on.  /etc/hosts was not present on my Mac and putting a
localhost entry in there fixed it.  Thanks a lot.

I'm still experiencing the same scrambled keyboard issue as before but I
can probably work around that in the same way I reported some time ago.

On Tue, Dec 25, 2018 at 8:54 AM Stefan Baur <X2Go-ML-1 at baur-itcs.de> wrote:

> Am 25.12.18 um 16:15 schrieb Darby Vicker:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I've used x2go on a very similar setup in the past but I'm running into a
> > problem on a new installation.  I've installed x2goserver on a CentOS 7.5
> > machine - simply a yum install via EPEL.  I'm trying to connect from a
> Mac
> > running 10.13.  I can ssh password free between the machines with no
> > issues.  When I try to connect with x2go, I get this in my client window:
> >
> > Error: Failed to resolve address of 'localhost'.
> > Loop: PANIC! Unknown remote host 'localhost'.
> > Error: Unknown remote host 'localhost'.
> > Session: Session terminated at 'Tue Nov 27 08:06:01 2018'.
> >
> > On the server side, I see this in /var/og/messages:
> >
> > Nov 27 08:06:01 valkyrie /usr/bin/x2gostartagent: successfully started
> X2Go
> > Agent session with ID dvicker-51-1543331158_stDMATE_dp32
> >
> > The server machine is in our local DNS and I've made sure the IP address
> is
> > in /etc/hosts and matches the hostname.  Any idea what is going on here?
> > Is there a way to disable the host lookup?
>
> Well, it complains about "localhost" being unresolvable, not the actual
> DNS name.  Soooo ... does your hosts file (on the Mac) contain an entry
> for "localhost" and "127.0.0.1"?
> My guess is that X2GoClient is trying to connect to XQuartz via that
> name, so if there's no entry for it, it can't find the local X server
> you need to have running on the client (which, in the case of macOS, is
> XQuartz).
>
> -Stefan
>
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