Mike- I finally noticed in my client that when I killed the x2gostartagent process, if the client is still open when I issue the kill command, then a window appears in the client this message over and over:
Connection failed <my_username> is not authorized at /usr/lib/x2go/x2gosqlitewrapper.pl line 526. The client really ought to show these kinds of errors without you having to kill the process on the server. But there is a bug in the Mac client where you cannot check the "show details" button until *after* a successful login. Therefore you never get to see the verbose output when your logins fail -- which is when it would be most useful to see it! Anyway after some digging on that error message, I figured out that my problem was that my Bitnami AMI had me signing in as username "ubuntu" which is really just an alias to the user "bitnami". But because I was signed in as a different username than the name of the home folder, it was messing up. When I logged instead using "bitnami" as the username, then suddenly it worked... kind of. gnome-session --session=gnome-fallback does not work for me... I'd see the screen but was not able to click on anything. I thought, maybe I have the wrong bindings installed, so I tried to aptitude install x2gognomebindings but it just kept saying this error: Couldn't find any package matching "x2gognomebindings". However, the following packages contain "x2gognomebindings" in their description: x2goserver-fmbindings So then I installed the x2goserver-fmbindings and I still couldn't get it to respond. I could see the desktop but nothing happens if I click. I could also not get on with just using the GNOME selection. I did have better luck with gnome-session --session=gnome-classic but it's still unusably slow. Even on 32k JPEG and with bandwidth set to WAN, stuff just happens way too slow, or doesn't happen at all. I know it's not my connection that's the problem. It's probably because it's an Amazon Micro instance, and it's just dog slow. If I use xfce4, I wonder if it would run faster? I'd like to try your xfce4 steps but I've already installed ubuntu-desktop, so will it hurt me to also install xfce4 alongside it? Can I have both installed? I just want to know if I should start over fresh with a new AMI. I don't need anything fancy, just want a GUI for managing files and running basic utilities like a git client. Thanks, Jon On Sat. 28 Jun.2014, at 7:29 AM, Michael DePaulo <mikedep...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Jon, > > Sorry to hear that you are running into this problem. > > On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 10:13 PM, Jon Gilbert <j...@prismnet.com> wrote: >> I have a server set up which is Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS (GNU/Linux >> 3.2.0-64-virtual x86_64). >> >> I installed ubuntu-desktop as instructed by the x2go wiki. I also did these >> steps: >> >> sudo apt-get install x2goserver >> sudo apt-get install x2goserver-xsession >> sudo apt-get install sqlite3 >> sudo x2godbadmin --createdb > > The last 2 commands should not be necessary. I am not very familiar > with the db though. > >> I try to connect from the Mac client (tried all the versions) and it always >> fails. It just hangs at the screen where it's trying to connect. I set the >> server log level to debug and it just says: >> >> Jun 24 00:52:50 <my_ip> /usr/bin/x2golistsessions[32234]: x2golistsessions >> has been called with no option >> Jun 24 00:52:50 <my_ip> /usr/bin/x2gostartagent: x2gostartagent called with >> options: 800x600 isdn 256k-jpeg unix-kde-depth_32 us query 0 D >> gnome-flashback.sh >> Jun 24 00:52:50 <my_ip> /usr/bin/x2gostartagent: client announced itself as >> ,,173.12.186.158'' >> Jun 24 00:52:50 <my_ip> /usr/bin/x2gosessionlimit[32271]: x2gosessionlimit >> has been called >> Jun 24 00:52:50 <my_ip> /usr/bin/x2golistsessions[32274]: x2golistsessions >> has been called with options: --all-servers >> Jun 24 00:52:51 <my_ip> /usr/lib/x2go/x2gogetdisplays[32289]: db_getdisplays >> called, server: <my_ip>; return value: >> Jun 24 00:52:51 <my_ip> /usr/lib/x2go/x2gogetports[32298]: db_getports >> called, server: <my_ip>; return value: >> Jun 24 00:52:52 <my_ip> /usr/lib/x2go/x2gogetdisplays[32342]: db_getdisplays >> called, server: <my_ip>; return value: >> Jun 24 00:52:52 <my_ip> /usr/lib/x2go/x2gogetports[32351]: db_getports >> called, server: <my_ip>; return value: >> >> It repeats this over and over as the processor runs at 100% on the server, >> being hosed by the several x2go processes that seem to be stuck in an >> infinite loop. >> >> You'll notice that it runs gnome-flashback.sh in my command, that's because >> it doesn't work to connect the normal way either, so I tried the steps >> outlined in this e-mail from this list: >> http://lists.x2go.org/pipermail/x2go-user/2014-May/002260.html > > There is no need to follow those steps because you are using Ubuntu > 12.04.4, not Ubuntu 14.04. Ubuntu 12.04 has GNOME 3.2, not GNOME 3.8. > GNOME 3.6 and earlier have gnome "fallback" session, which is > compatible with X2Go. "flashback" isn't even available until GNOME > 3.8, it's what "fallback" was renamed to. > >> (I find it annoying that it doesn't work with Gnome 3 according to that >> e-mail, yet it doesn't mention this incompatibility in a conspicuous way >> anywhere on the x2go site.) > > 1st, to fix your issue, I think you merely need to install package > gnome-session-fallback. > > 2nd, I agree that our wiki should have a page on distro & > desktop-environment compatibility. I need to discuss how to design it > though. Once I create it (or someone else creates it), it should be > referenced/linked to from other instructions pages on the wiki. > > 3rd, MIke#1 plans to create meta-packages that depend on the necessary > packages per DE. This will make it easier for users to recognize that > they need to install certain packages, and easier to install them. > >> >> Anyway I followed all the steps 1. through 6. in the above-linked e-mail, to >> no avail, because it did nothing at all towards making this work. >> >> BTW my server is on EC2. Don't know if that matters. And yes, I have > > I have gotten xubuntu 12.04.x to work on EC2 successfully: > https://vpsboard.com/topic/4241-running-a-lightweight-gui-on-your-vps-via-x2go/ > > Let's hope GNOME3 (3.2 of course) works well on it too. I look forward > to hearing how it performs. > >> Please let me know what is going wrong here and what I can do to fix this. >> Thanks. BTW I do have the latest version of XQuartz installed as my client, >> and I did set it up to accept remote connections and all that. The >> connection gets made no problem; the problem definitely seems to be on the >> server. >> >> Jon > > I'm mostly certain that the aforementioned fix, > gnome-session-fallback, is all that is required. > > Maybe other packages are required. For example, icons are missing on > xfce apps unless you install "xubuntu-icon-theme". > > -Mike#2 > _______________________________________________ x2go-user mailing list x2go-user@lists.x2go.org http://lists.x2go.org/listinfo/x2go-user
