Hi guys, Like a fool I upgraded my Fedora 28 workstation, and now my connection to my x2go session running on a CentOS 7.6.x server is acting really strangely.
It will connect and show the windows, but then the display starts flashing and the screen stops refreshing windows unless I'm actually using a specific window. Then it will work. For example, I'm typing this email in an xterm on system, which I'm using to SSH home to write this email. I had to refresh the terminal before it would update, but now that I'm typing, it's working just fine. But the rest of the windows in my x2go session are NOT refreshing, and the screen isn't updating properly either. If I move the mouse, the screen *tries* to update things, but it's really screwey. While typing this in an xterm, if I move the mouse, I have to refresh my mail client (emacs & viewmail) by hand to get the display working again. And it's very hard to get screen captures or cut'n'paste to show the info. But here goes... Client: Fedora 28 x86_64 system. Updated as of Jan 16, 2019, which broke the setup. x2goserver-common-4.1.0.3-1.fc28.noarch x2goserver-xsession-4.1.0.3-1.fc28.noarch x2goserver-4.1.0.3-1.fc28.x86_64 x2goclient-4.1.1.1-1.fc28.x86_64 x2goagent-4.1.0.3-1.fc28.x86_64 Server: Redhat CentOS 7.6.1810 (Core) x2goserver-common-4.1.0.3-1.el7.noarch perl-X2Go-Log-4.1.0.3-1.el7.noarch x2goagent-4.1.0.3-1.el7.x86_64 x2goserver-4.1.0.3-1.el7.x86_64 perl-X2Go-Server-DB-4.1.0.3-1.el7.x86_64 perl-X2Go-Server-4.1.0.3-1.el7.noarch x2goserver-xsession-4.1.0.3-1.el7.noarch Session: XFCE I'm loathe to reboot the server, because I've got work in various windows I need to keep going. What's the trick to force the x2goclient to start a NEW session on the same host? For some reason, it's just automatically resuming, and not giving me the option to select between different sessions. I strongly suspect it's a problem with Fedora, since the update on there of some libraries. Here's the dnf log from that upgrade: 2019-01-15T19:06:35Z DEBUG --> Starting dependency resolution 2019-01-15T19:06:35Z DEBUG ---> Package kernel-core.x86_64 4.19.14-200.fc28 will be installed 2019-01-15T19:06:35Z DEBUG ---> Package kernel.x86_64 4.19.14-200.fc28 will be installed 2019-01-15T19:06:35Z DEBUG ---> Package kernel-devel.x86_64 4.19.14-200.fc28 will be installed 2019-01-15T19:06:35Z DEBUG ---> Package kernel-modules-extra.x86_64 4.19.14-200.fc28 will be installed 2019-01-15T19:06:35Z DEBUG ---> Package kernel-modules.x86_64 4.19.14-200.fc28 will be installed 2019-01-15T19:06:35Z DEBUG ---> Package efivar.x86_64 35-1.fc28 will be upgraded 2019-01-15T19:06:35Z DEBUG ---> Package efivar.x86_64 37-1.fc28 will be an upgrade 2019-01-15T19:06:35Z DEBUG ---> Package efivar-libs.x86_64 35-1.fc28 will be upgraded 2019-01-15T19:06:35Z DEBUG ---> Package efivar-libs.x86_64 37-1.fc28 will be an upgrade 2019-01-15T19:06:35Z DEBUG ---> Package gnutls.x86_64 3.6.4-1.fc28 will be upgraded 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