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rlees85

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[SOLVED] Remmina SSH connections blank screen (GTK 3.20)

EDIT:

Now solved, see details here:
https://github.com/FreeRDP/Remmina/issues/835
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=765382

Many thanks to Antenore Gatta from Remmina and a load of people from VTE3

I have made a pacman package as a temp fix that works but cannot attach it here...

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Yet another GTK3.20 special!

Remmina now does not show anything for SSH connections. It connects up OK, asks for a password (or key) and then just nothing. A black screen, with a white square cursor in the top left. No text is printed to the SSH window.

The button to "disconnect" works.

In addition I have tried blind-typing something like:

touch ~/moo.txt

And using SFTP to see if the file exists, it does NOT. So it seems the ssh-session is not receiving text either.

Similar bug reported at Debian:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo … bug=820303

I've ran Remmina from the terminal, no interesting output.

I've tried switching to Adwaita, again nothing changes.

Anyone else experiencing this? Where should I raise this?

I don't think the issue is Remmina - rolling back the package to the previous version makes NO difference.

Last edited by rlees85 (2016-04-22 09:26:31)

max.bra

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From: Bologna - Italy

Registered: 2008-06-02

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Re: [SOLVED] Remmina SSH connections blank screen (GTK 3.20)

+1
same scenario

edit:
not only: 1 cpu core full with 2 remmina thread

Last edited by max.bra (2016-04-15 19:48:46)

max.bra

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Re: [SOLVED] Remmina SSH connections blank screen (GTK 3.20)

downgrade vte3 to version 0.42.5 solve the problem

rlees85

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Re: [SOLVED] Remmina SSH connections blank screen (GTK 3.20)

ah so its the VTE3 package! Thanks for the tip, sure hope it gets fixed soon though

rlees85

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Re: [SOLVED] Remmina SSH connections blank screen (GTK 3.20)

Well rolling back vte3 certainly fixes Remmina. It totally breaks gnome-terminal though.

No idea if this should be reported to Remmina or vte3 either...

max.bra

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Re: [SOLVED] Remmina SSH connections blank screen (GTK 3.20)

Well rolling back vte3 certainly fixes Remmina. It totally breaks gnome-terminal though.

oh yes it did of course. vte3 it's a gnome creature and it likes to travel together to gnome-terminal

No idea if this should be reported to Remmina or vte3 either...

IMO, it's a remmina fault, at least for what I said before. it's remmina that must adapt to vte3.

rlees85

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Re: [SOLVED] Remmina SSH connections blank screen (GTK 3.20)

https://github.com/FreeRDP/Remmina/issues/835

Worth a shot!

Thanks for the help

max.bra

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Re: [SOLVED] Remmina SSH connections blank screen (GTK 3.20)

thanks to antenore (upstream developer) problem is solved
waiting for patch propagation, who's in need can compile fully functional remmina branch:

PKGBUILD

# $Id$
# Maintainer: Sergej Pupykin <pupykin.s+arch@gmail.com>

pkgname=remmina
epoch=1
pkgver=1.2.0rcgit.11
pkgrel=2
pkgdesc="remote desktop client written in GTK+"
arch=(i686 x86_64)
url="http://www.remmina.org/"
license=('GPL')
depends=('gtk3' 'zlib' 'libjpeg' 'libssh' 'libunique' 'avahi' 'vte3'
	 'libgcrypt' 'libxdmcp' 'libsecret' 'webkit2gtk')
makedepends=('intltool' 'pkgconfig' 'cmake' 'libgnome-keyring'
             'avahi' 'libxkbfile' 'freerdp' 'telepathy-glib'
             'libvncserver')
optdepends=('libxkbfile'
            'freerdp'
            'telepathy-glib'
            'gnome-keyring'
            'nxproxy'
            'xorg-server-xephyr: XDMCP support'
            'libvncserver: VNC client/server support')
replaces=('remmina-plugins')
provides=('remmina-plugins')
source=("https://github.com/FreeRDP/Remmina/archive/vte3.zip")
md5sums=('1c0baec9068e276aa3ee8be59c8b4e93')

build() {
  cd ${srcdir}/Remmina-vte3/
  cmake \
    -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \
    -DCMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR=/usr/lib \
    -DWITH_APPINDICATOR=OFF .
  make
}

package() {
  cd ${srcdir}/Remmina-vte3/
  make DESTDIR=${pkgdir} install
  rm -rf $pkgdir/build
}

edit:
pacman hook update

Last edited by max.bra (2016-04-28 13:01:12)

gnumdk

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Re: [SOLVED] Remmina SSH connections blank screen (GTK 3.20)

Current git is broken... No Ctrl + C here...

Here an alternative:
- Extract libvte-2.91.so.0.4200.5 for vte3-0.42.5 package (Archlinux Rollback Machine)
- Put it somewhere, /opt for example
- And exec this in a terminal:
$ cp /usr/share/applications/remmina.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/
$ sed -i 's/^Exec=/Exec=env LD_PRELOAD=\/opt\/libvte-2.91.so.0.4200.5 /g' ~/.local/share/applications/remmina.desktop