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