You were right on. /etc/hosts was not present on my Mac and putting a localhost entry in there fixed it. Thanks a lot.
I'm still experiencing the same scrambled keyboard issue as before but I can probably work around that in the same way I reported some time ago. On Tue, Dec 25, 2018 at 8:54 AM Stefan Baur <x2go-m...@baur-itcs.de> wrote: > Am 25.12.18 um 16:15 schrieb Darby Vicker: > > Hello, > > > > I've used x2go on a very similar setup in the past but I'm running into a > > problem on a new installation. I've installed x2goserver on a CentOS 7.5 > > machine - simply a yum install via EPEL. I'm trying to connect from a > Mac > > running 10.13. I can ssh password free between the machines with no > > issues. When I try to connect with x2go, I get this in my client window: > > > > Error: Failed to resolve address of 'localhost'. > > Loop: PANIC! Unknown remote host 'localhost'. > > Error: Unknown remote host 'localhost'. > > Session: Session terminated at 'Tue Nov 27 08:06:01 2018'. > > > > On the server side, I see this in /var/og/messages: > > > > Nov 27 08:06:01 valkyrie /usr/bin/x2gostartagent: successfully started > X2Go > > Agent session with ID dvicker-51-1543331158_stDMATE_dp32 > > > > The server machine is in our local DNS and I've made sure the IP address > is > > in /etc/hosts and matches the hostname. Any idea what is going on here? > > Is there a way to disable the host lookup? > > Well, it complains about "localhost" being unresolvable, not the actual > DNS name. Soooo ... does your hosts file (on the Mac) contain an entry > for "localhost" and "127.0.0.1"? > My guess is that X2GoClient is trying to connect to XQuartz via that > name, so if there's no entry for it, it can't find the local X server > you need to have running on the client (which, in the case of macOS, is > XQuartz). > > -Stefan > > -- > BAUR-ITCS UG (haftungsbeschränkt) > Geschäftsführer: Stefan Baur > Eichenäckerweg 10, 89081 Ulm | Registergericht Ulm, HRB 724364 > Fon/Fax 0731 40 34 66-36/-35 | USt-IdNr.: DE268653243 > _______________________________________________ > x2go-user mailing list > x2go-user@lists.x2go.org > https://lists.x2go.org/listinfo/x2go-user
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