Virtual Environment Ubuntu screen is freezing randomly while using X2Go
Besides possible performance issues this can by caused by incompatibility of sound card. It can be solved by disabling audio support in X2Go - Session > Preferences > Media > Sound support
Closed remote proxy connection
It may happen that you can get following message when trying to connect to remote desktop.
the session. This may be due to the wrong authentication
credentials passed to the server.
Workaround 1
Initial workaround is to remove all opened sessions from your local ~/.x2go directory:
rm -f ~/.x2go/S-*
When connecting to server remember to terminate old session(s) and start a new session.
Workaround 2
If workaround 1 did not help:
- repeat workaround 1 to avoid sessions mess
login to your x2go remote server and remove .Xauthority file in your home directory on the remote server:
rm -f ~/.Xauthority
- try X2go again
Workaround 3
If workaround 1+2 did not help:
- repeat workaround 1+2 to avoid sessions mess
login to your x2go remote server and remove .ICEauthority file in your home directory on the remote server:
rm -f ~/.ICEauthority
- try X2go again
Workaround 4
If workaround 1+2+3 did not help:
login to your x2go remote server via ssh and remove +re-create x2go sessions database file in your home directory on the remote server:
rm -f /var/lib/x2go/x2go_sessions x2godbadmin --createdb
- try X2go again
Inspired by https://bugs.x2go.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=323