Re: [CentOS] Workaround for (EL6.4) rdesktop-1.6.0-10 Woe

2013-11-07 Thread Fred Smith
On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 08:00:53PM +, James Pearson wrote: > Cal Webster wrote: > > > > The Fedora package we used is the best choice since (1) it has already > > proven to fix the issues as cited in the bug report, and (2) Fedora is > > the source for upstream vendor packages anyway. > > RHEL

Re: [CentOS] Workaround for (EL6.4) rdesktop-1.6.0-10 Woe

2013-11-07 Thread James Pearson
Cal Webster wrote: > > The Fedora package we used is the best choice since (1) it has already > proven to fix the issues as cited in the bug report, and (2) Fedora is > the source for upstream vendor packages anyway. RHEL 6.5 will use rdesktop-1.7.1 If you have access to the RHEL 6.5 beta SRPMS,

Re: [CentOS] Workaround for (EL6.4) rdesktop-1.6.0-10 Woe

2013-11-07 Thread Cal Webster
On Thu, 2013-11-07 at 13:50 -0500, Fred Smith wrote: > On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 10:51:48AM -0500, Cal Webster wrote: > > rdesktop has been spewing error messages since the update to CentOS 6.4. > > Aside from the continuous stream of errors in the terminal window from > > which it was launched, ther

Re: [CentOS] Workaround for (EL6.4) rdesktop-1.6.0-10 Woe

2013-11-07 Thread Cal Webster
On Thu, 2013-11-07 at 19:17 +, James Pearson wrote: > Cal Webster wrote: > > > > In short, rdesktop 1.6.0-10 is buggy and unstable. See this upstream bug > > report for more: > > There are more recent versions of rdesktop available via 3rd party repos e.g. >

Re: [CentOS] Workaround for (EL6.4) rdesktop-1.6.0-10 Woe

2013-11-07 Thread James Pearson
Cal Webster wrote: > > In short, rdesktop 1.6.0-10 is buggy and unstable. See this upstream bug > report for more: There are more recent versions of rdesktop available via 3rd party repos e.g. No idea if they fix your problem - but probably worth a try? Jam

Re: [CentOS] Workaround for (EL6.4) rdesktop-1.6.0-10 Woe

2013-11-07 Thread Fred Smith
On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 10:51:48AM -0500, Cal Webster wrote: > rdesktop has been spewing error messages since the update to CentOS 6.4. > Aside from the continuous stream of errors in the terminal window from > which it was launched, there are a number of usability issues in the > remote session. T

[CentOS] Workaround for (EL6.4) rdesktop-1.6.0-10 Woe

2013-11-07 Thread Cal Webster
rdesktop has been spewing error messages since the update to CentOS 6.4. Aside from the continuous stream of errors in the terminal window from which it was launched, there are a number of usability issues in the remote session. The pointer does not change shape when moving over various window comp