Bug 715672

Summary:	net-misc/rdesktop-1.9.0: if sent to background, hangs after certificate confirmation
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	fkater <fkater>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Bernard Cafarelli <voyageur>
Status:	UNCONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	jstein
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description fkater 2020-03-31 20:41:18 UTC

I've always been starting rdesktop on the console sending it to the background
(using the trailing ampersand):

rdesktop ... remote &

Since rdesktop-1.9.x, this fails -- if and only if there was a certificate
confirmation request on the console to be confirmed with "yes". In that case
rdesktop kind of hangs, printing "y" endlessly.

Expected behaviour: Opening the remote desktop window.

Workaround 1: Run rdesktop-1.9.x once *without* sending it to the background,
and confirm with "yes". The remote desktop window opens as expected. Next time
calling rdesktop, there is no confirmation dialog required anymore and thus
sending rdesktop to the background works.

Workaround 2: Downgrade to rdesktop-1.8.x.

Thanks

Comment 1 Jonas Stein gentoo-dev

2020-04-01 00:10:50 UTC

Please check if it is one of the reports upstream https://github.com/rdesktop/rdesktop/issues