On Wed, 8 Oct 2008, Jordan Erickson wrote:

>> When I log onto the main system terminal as any of the users, Wine
>> works perfectly and the program is usable.  However, when I log on as
>> any user, including Root, on any of the thin client terminals, any
>> action utilizing Wine causes the terminal to freeze temporarily, then
>> revert back to the login screen.  Even trying to open Notepad using
>> Wine on the remote terminals causes the freeze.  I can't figure out
>> why it runs fine on the system terminal and causes serious problems
>> on the remote terminals.  At first I thought it was a permissions
>> problem, but that doesn't make sense since there is no problem logged
>> in as any user on the system terminal.
>>
> The only program I run in Wine on my Ubuntu/LTSP network is UltraVNC
> viewer (because it supports 'singleclick' type ID numbers for VNC
> repeaters), and it works fine on thin-clients. There's definitely a
> layer of complexity that thin clients impose upon *any* program. Add an
> API layer written from scratch to impersonate Microsoft system calls,
> and you have an "anything goes" scenario.
>
> If I were to guess I'd think it would be video related. Do you have
> anything in your lts.conf file? Tell us more about your setup.

Hmm... I have similar problem but with another program: we teach ANSYS in 
our lab (10-15 thin client). There is some kind of graphics or xlib 
related issue because it crashes when trying to initialize the GUI. I can 
only run it through launching a VNC server (tightvnc) for every client, 
and then the users should connect to the corresponding VNC window. 
However, it is a rather dirty "solution" (btw. the fonts used by ANSYS are 
quite miserable in VNC). I guess this bug is not strictly LTS (or ldm) 
related because when I open an X -query session to another machine that 
can run ANSYS on its own X server it crashes in the same manner, i.e. I 
cannot use it from a remote desktop.

I tried to google this phenomenon, but did not find any hint... so the 
students run ANSYS through w*ndows rdesktop on the win2003 server. :-(

--
Zsolt

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