Mathematica 9.0.1 hangs when running on Linux over the X2Go client

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Mathematica starts up and then hangs at the initial start a new workbook screen when using X2Go to a EL6.4 linux computer. Mathematica 8.0 works fine. Any ideas? I’d like newer versions of Mathematica to work …

2

Two quick suggestions:

a) start Mathematica in a terminal window with the -clean option,
    mathematica -clean &
This resets initialization files in case one was damaged or has incorrect/out-of-date data.

b) In case of a video driver incompatibility, try
     mathematica -mesa &
to use software rendering methods instead of hardware (video card) acceleration.
The option -defaultvisual sometimes helps, too.

Does the Mathematica 9 Kernel (“math” script) work? This is a plain-text interface.

refs:
http://support.wolfram.com/kb/3274
http://support.wolfram.com/kb/3303

3

Thanks, the mathematica -mesa & works for me!

4

I’m experiencing this issue now only Mathematica -mesa is not working for me. Does Mathematica -mesa work for anyone else in X2Go or has it been broken in newer releases?

5

Mathematica’s front-end is not guaranteed to work through any particular remote-access program.

I added you two to the existing suggestion for supporting X2Go.

6

Have you tried -clean or -defaultvisual ?

Is this also with Mathematica 9?

7

Yes, Yes and Yes :frowning: