X2Go error: home directory path contains non-ASCII characters

Question

The following error has started appearing for myself and all local users of X2Go when attempting to access a remote Ubuntu workstation:

Connection failed. Your home directory path contains non-ASCII characters. Aborting session startup.

Connecting via terminal / ssh still works fine. What is likely causing this error and how could I fix it?

My home directory contains no such characters. It is just /home/myusername . — barnhillec, Aug 04 '21 at 17:55

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 04 '21 at 18:25

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The answer is that X2Go will report this error if the root filesystem is full.

answered Aug 04 '21 at 18:25

barnhillec

The same error just occurred here. I was able to SSH into the remote server and effectively realized that the disk was full. After deleting a few files I was again able to connect using X2Go. – Vasco May 09 '23 at 14:44

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 06 '22 at 03:29

try this command

iconv -f 'ASCII' -t 'ASCII'  <<< "${HOME}

This can happen if your iconv doesn't work.

iconv: relocation error: iconv: symbol __gconv_open version GLIBC_PRIVATE not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time reference

I fixed it by reinstalling libc6 on Ubuntu 18.04

sudo apt-get --reinstall install libc6

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