[X2Go-User] Session terminated instantly, seemingly with no errors

Matteo Guareschi matteo.guareschi at gmail.com
Wed May 19 00:20:27 CEST 2021


It was as stupid as installing it on the client side. Thank you so much.
Might be useful to make the package a dependence, unless the error is
weirdly just mine.

For the extension, I believe it should be loaded, but I might have messed
it up when creating that custom kb layout.

Thank you again,
Matteo

On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 3:04 PM Ulrich Sibiller <uli42 at gmx.de> wrote:

> Ok, so the reason for the failure is the client side. Btw: Why don't you
> have a xkeyboard extension loaded on the client?
>
> Have you tried installing the font package you mentioned before on the
> client?
>
> Uli
>
> Matteo Guareschi <matteo.guareschi at gmail.com> schrieb am Di., 18. Mai
> 2021, 23:56:
>
>> Thank you Uli,
>> On the client side I get the securitypolicy error followed by:
>> nxagentGetRemoteXkbExtension: WARNING! Faulted to query XKB extension.
>> Unable to query XKEYBOARD extension.
>> Error: Aborting session with 'Could not open default font 'fixed''.
>> On the server side, if I try to run the same command it opens a window
>> which remains black until I close it. Not sure what is the intended
>> behavior.
>>
>> I should also mention that the client on Linux uses a custom keyboard
>> layout, not present on the server, but even after loading more standard
>> ones, or disabling keyboard configuration, there is no difference.
>> I appreciate your help!
>>
>> On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 1:33 PM Ulrich Sibiller <uli42 at gmx.de> wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 12:33 AM Matteo Guareschi
>>> <matteo.guareschi at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Hello,
>>> > I have been trying to figure this out for a while now. Every time I
>>> start a session from my client (arch) to my server (arch xfce), the session
>>> seems to start fine, but terminates instantly.
>>> > The client reads:
>>> >
>>> > Loop: WARNING! Overriding auxiliary X11 port with new value '1'.
>>> > Warning: Overriding auxiliary X11 port with new value '1'.
>>>
>>> not a problem.
>>>
>>> > Loop: WARNING! Unrecognized session type 'unix-kde-depth_24'. Assuming
>>> agent session.
>>> > Warning: Unrecognized session type 'unix-kde-depth_24'. Assuming agent
>>> session.
>>>
>>> Also not a problem, rather a bug in x2go that has always been there.
>>> $SOMEONE should fix it..
>>>
>>> > Error: keyboard file not created: Is a directory
>>>
>>> this is intended behaviour.
>>>
>>> > Error: Aborting session with 'Could not open default font 'fixed''.
>>>
>>> This is the cause of your trouble.
>>>
>>> > error opening security policy file
>>> /usr/local/lib/nx/X11/xserver/SecurityPolicy
>>>
>>> This is also uncritical but should happen.
>>>
>>> Both previous messages indicate that something is not correct in the
>>> way NX was built on your system.
>>>
>>> > At this point I have exhausted my resources. I have tried the client
>>> from a different OS and the result is the same. From what I understand the
>>> fixed font error is most likely a red herring, but I have installed
>>> xorg-fonts-misc for what it's worth, with no difference.
>>>
>>> It is not a red herring. This code clearly shuts down nxagent when the
>>> font is missing.  Need to find out why that is because on my system I
>>> do not have the fixed font installed but it works.
>>>
>>> Please try the following: Connect with ssh -X to the server and run
>>> "/bin/nxagent :5 -ac" . Can you start it that way?
>>>
>>> Uli
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> > I would really appreciate any help.
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Matteo Michele Guareschi
>>
>

-- 
Matteo Michele Guareschi
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