[X2Go-User] No terminal windows, no logout.

[Thomas Stephan]

Another observation:
If I have a remote desktop open, and open a separate ssh-connection to
the server, then

export DISPLAY=:<Display number of x2go-desktop>
xterm &

opens a terminal window on the remote machine and displays it in the
x2go window.




Am 30.09.19 um 15:06 schrieb Ulrich Sibiller:
> On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 1:19 PM Thomas Stephan
> <Thomas.Stephan at lrz.uni-muenchen.de> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> we use x2go for multiple users to connect to workstations running Ubuntu
>> 16.04.6 LTS. Clients run on MacOSX or Windows machines.
>> After using the setup for some days with multiple reconnects, for
>> unknown reasons we can no longer open terminal applications via these
>> remote-desktops.
>> This applies to all terminal applications like UXTerm, Xfce Terminal,
>> XTerm, etc.
>> We can still perfectly open a file manager, or e.g. Matlab and work with
>> those.
>> We can also no longer close the session because the confirmation dialog
>> to confirm user logout does not appear.
>> It seems like there is a terminal process started every time we start a
>> terminal via the desktop GUI. But the window does not show up.
>> After rebooting the workstation, everything works fine again, terminals
>> can be opened, logout confirmation dialog pops up.
> This looks to me how a shell accessing a stale mount. When then
> problem shows up next time (temporarily) mv your .bashrc out of the
> way and try to open an terminal.
>
> Uli
>
> BTW: are the home dirs local on the server or mounted via NFS?