[Remmina-common] Segfaults and slow performance in Debian Squeeze with freerdp-0.8.2

[John A. S. I. <jsu...@op...>]

Hello, all. We were looking for a GUI for freerdp to enable our users to
use RDP6 and were delighted to find Remmina. However, we've been stopped
right at the starting blocks: it segfaults upon launching.

We are running fully patched Debian Squeeze for i386. We rebuilt the
freerdp deb files from source deb using freerdp 0.8.2 from Sourceforge.
That works perfectly from the command line. We then installed
remmina-plugin-data remmina-plugin-rdp remmina remmina-plugin-vnc. This
pulled in version 0.8.3-1 for Remmina and 0.8.3-2 for the plugins. We
enter the information needed to connect to the Windows 7 system (we have
tried many variations on the Remmina RDP settings) and it segfaults when
we try to connect. I have taken an strace but nothing jumped out at me
as the cause.

I noticed that you have released version 0.9.3 so I thought it would be
worth trying that before raising an issue. I was able to download the
deb files from Wheezy but they depend upon a newer version of
libgnutls26 and the newer version of libgnutls depends on
multiarch-support. So I only installed what would install, viz., remmina
and the data and RDP plugins. That launched without a segfault however
the performance was abysmal - as if it was using RDP5 instead of RDP6.
To ensure it was not just my connection, I started xfreerdp manually and
it was wonderfully fast.

So I suppose I have three questions:
1) Is there a fix for the segfault in 0.8.3?
2) Are there Squeeze backports or debs for 0.9.3? That would be much
easier than backporting myself if they are available.
3) Why the terrible performance in 0.9.3? I did not see a way to select
the RDP version in the UI.

Thanks, all - John