[rdesktop-devel] [ rdesktop-Bugs-2845414 ] connecting to win2008 ssesion broker

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Bugs item #2845414, was opened at 2009-08-27 07:34
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Category: None
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: Fixed
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: connecting to win2008 ssesion broker

Initial Comment:
when connecting to Session Broker Server 2008 Load
Balancing !, some of the times it connects and some exit from the rdesktop and gives an error

error:
WARNING: rdp_in_unistr: iconv fail, errno 84
WARNING: server sent an unexpected long string, truncating
Segmentation fault

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Comment By: https://www.google.com/accounts ()
Date: 2011-06-24 15:51

Message:
I was hoping that version 1.7.0 fixed this issue.  However it looks like it
doesn't. Its such a shame as it would solve a lot of issues and make this
product really good. However it doesn't suite what we need and will have to
look at alternatives until it is done.

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Comment By: Pierre Ossman (ossman_)
Date: 2011-06-08 08:17

Message:
Reopening bug. Thanks for reporting, even though it might not have been the
result we were hoping for.

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Comment By: William Seemann (wseemann)
Date: 2011-06-07 17:23

Message:
I also encountered "WARNING: rdp_in_unistr: iconv fail, errno 84" when
using a current trunk build of rdesktop. Can someone change the status of
this bug since the problem isn't fixed.

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Comment By: Anna Martynova (broom_)
Date: 2011-05-17 07:58

Message:
The problem still exists with rdesktop 1.7.0.
When I try to connect to existing session through Session Broker, I get
such message:

WARNING: rdp_in_unistr: iconv fail, errno 84

rdesktop window is all black, and if it runs in fullscreen, you can't do
anything (ctrl-alt-enter doesn't work).

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Comment By: Anna Martynova (broom_)
Date: 2011-04-27 09:11

Message:
I tried to connect to terminal farm of Windows 2008R2 servers with rdesktop
1.7.0. Sometimes rdesktop connects (I suppose when session broker doesn't
redirect you to another server), and sometimes I receive a message:

WARNING: server sent an unexpectedly long string, truncating

At that moment rdesktop window is all black or shows frozen "welcome"
windows logo.

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Comment By: Peter strand (astrand)
Date: 2011-04-13 12:09

Message:
To the last 3 anonymous reporters: Are you trying with rdesktop 1.6.0 or
the latest Subversion version?

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Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Date: 2010-03-26 03:34

Message:
I have the same 
WARNING: server sent an unexpectedly long string, truncating

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Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Date: 2010-03-24 05:15

Message:
The same for me on 2008 R2 :(

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Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Date: 2010-02-22 21:16

Message:
I am still having a problem with this in my environment.  Session broker
server is running on server 2008r2, and the terminal server farm is running
server 2003.  I am using a hardware load balancer from kemp, and ip address
redirection is disabled.  I built the lastest svn version of rdesktop, and
now see:

WARNING: server sent an unexpectedly long string, truncating
ERROR: getaddrinfo: Name or service not known

When I try to reconnect to an existing session.

Thanks,
Trent

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Comment By: Peter strand (astrand)
Date: 2010-01-21 09:25

Message:
The patch has been comitted to Subversion. Hopefully fixes this bug, reopen
if still problems. 

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Comment By: Dan Drown (dandrown)
Date: 2010-01-19 20:06

Message:
I ran into this problem too.  I created a workaround patch, which I posted
to:

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=20100119010457.GB3863%40vps.drown.org&forum_name=rdesktop-devel

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Comment By: wnyrodeo (wnyrodeo)
Date: 2010-01-04 23:16

Message:
we have the same issue.  Can someone from the rdesktop dev. team please
look into this issue?  

Thanks in advance, your help is always appreciated!

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Comment By: Nikolaj Sheller (nikolajsheller)
Date: 2009-12-22 14:57

Message:
We are seeing the same problem here.
Could this have something to do with localisation? I.e. conversion from
one locale/codepage to another causes the string form the server to become
an unexpected length?

The error occurs in "rdp.c" in the method:
rdp_in_unistr(STREAM s, char *string, in WINDOWS_CODEPAGE, g_codepage,
(int) iconv_h);

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Comment By: Amelia Nilsson (amelianilsson)
Date: 2009-12-18 10:13

Message:
We also have this problem. When we try to access out TS-environment that
are using Session Broker Load Balancing on Windows 2008 rdesktop would seg
fault every time with the following reason:

WARNING: rdp_in_unistr: iconv fail, errno 22
WARNING: Unexpectedly large redirection cookie
WARNING: server sent an unexpectedly long string, truncating
Segmentation fault

It would be great if you could assign this bug to someone and give it a
bit higher priority since Windows 2008 TS-environments with Session Broker
Load Balacing is more often seen at companies all over the world. Thanks in
advance!

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Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Date: 2009-11-24 20:36

Message:
Same here when trying connect to Vista 64bit (RDP 6.1)

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Comment By: https://www.google.com/accounts ()
Date: 2009-11-12 09:51

Message:
We also have the same problem, the other problem is that you have to log on
two times. As you first log on to the loadbalancing master and when it has
choosen a server for you it doesn't remember the username and password.

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Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Date: 2009-09-16 12:36

Message:
we have the same problem. if the session broker move the rdp connection to
an other server (the reason is load balancing) the rdp connection faild. we
try it with a "igel" thin client and rdesktop v1.6. we get no error, the
client simply close. there are solutions?

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