RDM crashes on Fedora
Hey guys. I am running RDM Linux on Fedora 37 with a Devolutions online free vault in Wayland Gnome installed via Flatpak. Since the most recent release, I have been having crashes in the app whenever I happen to choose an RDP session that has any issue with it that would cause RDM to bring up an error. For example, if my saved credentials to the RDP target has expired, I get the connection error prompt followed by RDM crashing. If I fat finger an IP address and the IP can't be resolved, I get an error and RDM crashes. What's weird is that if I launch the application from its flatpak folder in the terminal to see what errors I am getting and repeat the same steps, I see some GTK related messages when I launch the application and again when the error pops up but it does not crash. Also, I installed Vmware Workstation Pro for Linux, installed Ubuntu 22.10, loaded up the same online vault and no crash behavior; edit I should mention that the RDM install on Ubuntu was using the .deb version rather than the flatpak
I am stumped. I don't want to have to switch to Ubuntu. Please help. I will get you the output from the command line here in a second. Hopefully I can edit my post.
Here we go... here I have intentionally not connected to VPN while running the application from the terminal and trying to access an RDP target so I can simulate what would cause the application to crash
All Comments (6)
Hi,
We are working on fixing issue related to flatpak but they are not quite ready unfortunately.
In the meanwhile, as a workaround, you can try using RDM outside of flatpak, assuming your Fedora distro meets dependencies (it did in the past).
In order to do that
- Download the .deb file from our website
- Extract the content
- Extract data.tar.zst
You should see a bin and usr folder. You can go to usr/lib/devolutions/RemoteDesktopManager and execute RemoteDesktopManager.
Hopefully, that lets you use RDM while we fix the flatpak version.
If this isn't clear or if you have further questions, don't hesitate.
Regards
Jonathan Lafontaine
Quick update: I went back to using the deb file install and things were stable until I upgraded from Fedora 37 to 38. Now it just opens and then immediately crashes with the latest version of the software from 4/17/2023. I am running Wayland if that helps. Do I need to wait for a new version to see this resolved?
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Hi!
We have had issues with Wayland recently, Therefore I would try to use another windowing manager like X11.
If you are able to do so, please tell us if this has solved your issue, otherwise, we will investigate the issue further.
Regards,
David Ringuet
Hi,
Just saw this thread while searching for something else and wanted to advise that installing 'xorg-xwayland' stops the crashes for me in a pure Wayland environment. Appreciate that you're not using vanilla wayland when you do this, but at least you don't need to log out and back in using X11 just to use one app. Thought I'd share.
Thanks
Hi,
Just saw this thread while searching for something else and wanted to advise that installing 'xorg-xwayland' stops the crashes for me in a pure Wayland environment. Appreciate that you're not using vanilla wayland when you do this, but at least you don't need to log out and back in using X11 just to use one app. Thought I'd share.
Thanks
Hey Dan... thanks for the heads up. Looks like I have xwayland installed already on my Fedora box. I am not sure how to default RDM to trying X11 instead of Wayland so xwayland can be used.
We have figured out that by default, GTK will look for Xorg but it can be set to behave in a pure Wayland environment by setting GDK_BACKEND=wayland in your environment (source: https://docs.gtk.org/gtk3/wayland.html).
Hope this helps!
David Ringuet