[winswitch] Awkward...

[Eric Blade]

... Perhaps you should try the more user-friendly front-end
http://winswitch.org/ instead of xpra directly.



On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 3:04 AM, Hugo <hugo1000 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi, I really don't want to make this any longer than necessary as it is
> embarrassing as hell, but is this software for real? The reason I ask is
> that while the website looks like this is a mature product still under
> active development, but:
>
> 1) The starter instructions on the initial page are missing the bit that
> you must start a session on the server, even when the first suggested
> command strongly looks like it should create the damm session itself.
>
> 2) Every single command I have tried on this has lead to a variety of
> unhandled python exceptions which... well... have you guys heard of try,
> except, and all that? I mean if you can't code it right the first fucking
> time, at least try to catch the fucking exceptions in some fucking useful
> error messages.
>
> 3) Couldn't get it work at all in any way.
>
> Following is some of the output I have had to endure:
>
> 1) running your own fucking example command:
> xpra start ssh:192.168.1.114:100
> --start-child=/home/hugo/jmeter/runjmeter.sh
> 2014-06-09 10:46:01,970 OpenGL support not enabled: No module named gdkgl
> bash: .xpra/run-xpra: No such file or directory
> 2014-06-09 10:46:02,293 connection closed after 0 packets received (0.0
> bytes) and 1 packets sent (25K bytes)
> 2014-06-09 10:46:02,293 Connection lost
>
> 2) running your won fucking example command AGAIN:
> xpra start ssh:192.168.1.114:100
> --start-child=/home/hugo/jmeter/runjmeter.sh
> 2014-06-09 10:47:55,424 OpenGL support not enabled: No module named gdkgl
> bash: .xpra/run-xpra: No such file or directory
> 2014-06-09 10:47:55,646 read error for TwoFileConnection(ssh:
> 192.168.1.114:100)
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/xpra/net/protocol.py", line 437,
> in _io_thread_loop
>     callback()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/xpra/net/protocol.py", line 485,
> in _read
>     buf = self._conn.read(8192)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/xpra/net/bytestreams.py", line 70,
> in read
>     self.may_abort("read")
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/xpra/net/bytestreams.py", line 67,
> in may_abort
>     self._abort_test(action)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/xpra/scripts/main.py", line 602,
> in abort_test
>     raise IOError(error_message)
> IOError: cannot read using ['ssh', '-T', '192.168.1.114', '.xpra/run-xpra',
> '_proxy_start', ':100', '--start-child=/etc/X11/Xsession true',
> '--start-child=/home/hugo/jmeter/runjmeter.sh']: the SSH process has
> terminated with exit code=127
> 2014-06-09 10:47:55,654 write error for TwoFileConnection(ssh:
> 192.168.1.114:100)
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/xpra/net/protocol.py", line 437,
> in _io_thread_loop
>     callback()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/xpra/net/protocol.py", line 471,
> in _write
>     written = self._conn.write(buf)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/xpra/net/bytestreams.py", line 74,
> in write
>     self.may_abort("write")
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/xpra/net/bytestreams.py", line 67,
> in may_abort
>     self._abort_test(action)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/xpra/scripts/main.py", line 602,
> in abort_test
>     raise IOError(error_message)
> IOError: cannot write using ['ssh', '-T', '192.168.1.114',
> '.xpra/run-xpra', '_proxy_start', ':100', '--start-child=/etc/X11/Xsession
> true', '--start-child=/home/hugo/jmeter/runjmeter.sh']: the SSH process has
> terminated with exit code=127
> 2014-06-09 10:47:55,654 connection closed after 0 packets received (0.0
> bytes) and 1 packets sent (0.0 bytes)
>
> 3) running your own fucking example command AFTER STARTING A SERVER
> SESSION:
> xpra start ssh:192.168.1.114:100
> --start-child=/home/hugo/jmeter/runjmeter.sh
> 2014-06-09 10:52:54,778 OpenGL support not enabled: No module named gdkgl
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/xpra", line 8, in <module>
>     sys.exit(main(sys.argv[0], sys.argv))
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/xpra/scripts/main.py", line 70, in
> main
>     return run_mode(script_file, parser, options, args, mode)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/xpra/scripts/main.py", line 620,
> in run_mode
>     return run_proxy(parser, options, script_file, args, mode)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/xpra/scripts/main.py", line 1074,
> in run_proxy
>     assert len(args)==1, "proxy/shadow-start: expected 1 argument but got
> %s" % len(args)
> AssertionError: proxy/shadow-start: expected 1 argument but got 2
> 2014-06-09 10:52:55,062 Connection lost
> 2014-06-09 10:52:55,063 connection closed after 0 packets received (0.0
> bytes) and 1 packets sent (25K bytes)
>
>
>
>
> Stop developing software. I rest my case.
>
> Hugo Campos
>
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