CentOS - Oct 2014 - X2go server on Centos7, any success?

Folks

I have been unable to get X2go to work on a Centos 7 server.  I have 
tried both the out-of-the-box GNOME desktop and the Xfce as well.

In both cases, the view from the client is that the screen starts to 
appear, then goes away.  On the server, I see the following messages 
in /var/log/messages (I have erased the user name and replaced it 
with XXX).  The server is running as a virtual machine on a Win7 
system (using VMWare), and the "YYY" mentioned below is the Win7 
user.  "Goat" is the name of the server.



Oct 31 13:10:45 goat systemd: Starting Session 71 of user XXX.
Oct 31 13:10:45 goat systemd-logind: New session 71 of user XXX.
Oct 31 13:10:45 goat systemd: Started Session 71 of user XXX.
Oct 31 13:10:48 goat /usr/bin/x2gostartagent: successfully started 
X2Go agent session with ID XXX-57-1414786247_stDXFCE_dp32
Oct 31 13:10:52 goat /usr/bin/x2gosetkeyboard: Setting X keyboard 
according to /home/XXX/.x2go/C-XXX-57-1414786247_stDXFCE_dp32/keyboard
Oct 31 13:10:52 goat /usr/bin/x2gomountdirs[8612]: successfully 
mounted 
YYY at 127.0.0.1:30026/cygdrive/C/Users/YYY/X2GO~1/S-704D~1/spool to 
/tmp/.x2go-XXX/spool/C-XXX-57-1414786247_stDXFCE_dp32
Oct 31 13:10:52 goat /usr/bin/x2goruncommand: launching session with 
Xsession-x2go mechanism, using STARTUP="xfce4-session"
Oct 31 13:10:53 goat /usr/bin/x2goumount-session[8931]: successfully 
unmounted "/tmp/.x2go-XXX/spool/C-XXX-57-1414786247_stDXFCE_dp32"


As you can see, this particular run was using Xfce.

I would appreciate guidance, and yes, I have read the "manual", and 
also at least one "howto" specific to Centos 7.

The version of the x2go server is

[root at goat log]# rpm -qa | grep x2go
x2goserver-4.0.1.18-1.el7.x86_64
x2goagent-3.5.0.27-1.el7.x86_64
x2goserver-xsession-4.0.1.18-1.el7.x86_64
[root at goat log]#

the X2go client on Win7 works just fine with my Centos6 and Debian 
servers.  I found no way to capture the commentary produced by the X2go client.

David

On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 3:21 PM, david <david at daku.org>
wrote:
>
> I have been unable to get X2go to work on a Centos 7 server.  I have tried
> both the out-of-the-box GNOME desktop and the Xfce as well.
It won't work with Gnome.  I believe that is due to the 3d hardware
requirement.   MATE from EPEL works, or KDE if you have that
installed.   Haven't tried Xfce - if it fails, are you sure it would
work from the console?
> the X2go client on Win7 works just fine with my Centos6 and Debian servers.
> I found no way to capture the commentary produced by the X2go client.
I haven't used it that much yet because the windows x2go client has a
conflict with 'synergy' which I run to share the keyboard/mouse with
an adjacent laptop (or sometimes two).   So most of the time I'm still
using NX with freenx on Centos6 hosts.   But without synergy running
it does work with MATE on the host.

-- 
    Les Mikesell
       lesmikesell at gmail.com