[winswitch] Awkward...

... offonoffoffonoff at gmail.com
Mon Jun 9 23:54:25 BST 2014 

Hugo,

Did you try doing anything about the error you were getting?  Or did you
keep running the same commands ignoring the fact that xpra was complaining
about a missing dependency?  The error seems pretty clear about a fatal
error, so I don't think a try/except would be helpful.


On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 7:46 AM, Eric Blade <blade.eric at gmail.com> wrote:

> ... 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
> >
> > PS: send any replies directly as I have obviously not subscribed this
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