[X2Go-User] connection failed.

[Ilaria Sani]

Thank you Uli for keeping the ball rolling!!!

Following your suggestion, I 
pgrep -f x2goagent
And got a number of ongoing processed that I am not allowed to kill.
e.g.
pkill: killing pid 133596 failed: Operation not permitted

So I tried to figure out if any of those were mine:

pgrep -f x2goagent -u sani
pgrep -f x2goagent -s sani-67-1637314001_stDXFXF_dp32

But no line appeared

Is it possible that my crashed session is not listed there?


Thanks,
Ilaria

-----Original Message-----
From: Ulrich Sibiller <uli42 at gmx.de> 
Sent: Friday, November 19, 2021 9:03 AM
To: Ilaria Sani <Ilaria.Sani at unige.ch>
Cc: x2go-user at lists.x2go.org
Subject: Re: [X2Go-User] connection failed.

On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 12:06 PM Ilaria Sani <Ilaria.Sani at unige.ch> wrote:
> I did the following in the x2go GUI: Session-session 
> management-terminate session

In German the button means "Delete session" (so this is likely to be a translation mistake), and it will (only) delete the session configuration on the x2goclient side, not stopping any running session.

> > What I was doing was to -kill geometry in putty and then re-do one.
>
> What do you mean by that?
> I was using a command line in putty terminal that would kill anything pending and then I was re-configuring the geometry upon the next re-start.
> I do not remember exactly what the command line was about, but I remember it was using -kill and -geometry flag.
> Sorry I wish I could be more specific. Anyway I was using TightVNC and not X2go. Likely it does not applies.

putty to your server, run pkill -f x2goagent -> will kill all _your_ x2gosessions.

> You can try to use mobaxterm to connect to your server and see if you 
> can run "x2goagent :1" there.  If that does not work, that's the 
> reason for the connection problems. If  it works, then we need to 
> search the problem elsewhere.
>
> I cannot use mobaxterm, because my institution (and relative cluster I am trying to connect to) only supports X2go.

Mobaxterm is an alternative to putty which comes with an embedded X server. The only thing you need is ssh access to the server, which you
(obviously) have.There's a portable version of mobaxterm that can be run without installation.

>
> > I tried to visualize the Archive of this mailing list but I could not find a way to search previous posts.
>
> see https://lists.x2go.org/listinfo/x2go-user respectively 
> https://lists.x2go.org/pipermail/x2go-user/
>
> I had seen the list of Archived posts (https://lists.x2go.org/pipermail/x2go-user/).
> I started searching by clicking on the first Thread or Subject, then the second, third, and so on...
> I was wondering is there was a way to visualize them all in a long list so that one can ctrl-F keywords.

Well, I am not aware. But you can use google to and limit the search with "site:lists.x2go.org"

Uli