Console doesn't work

[Martin Collins]

I am using Kubuntu Precise with backports on my desktop. Trying to connect to an Ubuntu Server Precise VM on XenCenter 6.1.0 with openxenmanager 0.r80+dfsg-4. It mostly works but the console is blank.

It seems a local vnc socket connection is made, I put in some debugging to see the port number and both ends of the socket show in netstat. Also the login text is received. It just doesn't show on the screen. If I try to log in blind the Enter key is captured by the 'Copy selected text' button and I get a traceback because there is no selected text.

After a while the vnc connection is lost and openxenmanger switches to the Performance tab. I get the following traceback:
VNC disconnected.. <gtkvnc.Display object at 0x7f55ec414280 (VncDisplay at 0x2cad020)>
Unexpected error: (<class 'socket.error'>, error(9, 'Bad file descriptor'), <traceback object at 0x7f55ec11b098>)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/openxenmanager/tunnel.py", line 99, in read_from_server
    self.client_fd.send(data)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/socket.py", line 170, in _dummy
    raise error(EBADF, 'Bad file descriptor')
error: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor

[Nicolas Michel (be-nicolas-michel)]

I just found and tested a patch from Debian. It is working applied on my machine :

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=702336

The patch applied to the Ubuntu 14.04 LTS is attached.

[Daniel Lintott (dlintott)]

Thankyou very much for testing the patch!

I have now taken over developemnt of OpenXenManager and hope to make a relase soon that will include the patch mentioned.

Any further problems, please don't hesitate to file bugs on the GitHub Issue Tracker at: https://github.com/OpenXenManager/openxenmanager

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

The attachment "openxenmanager-ubuntu14.04.patch" seems to be a patch. If it isn't, please remove the "patch" flag from the attachment, remove the "patch" tag, and if you are a member of the ~ubuntu-reviewers, unsubscribe the team.

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[munz (munzerelli)]

Hello,
I'm running Ubuntu Gnome 15.10 and have the same issue. Has anyone found a workaround to fix this? (Not using windows) Thank you!!

[Martin Collins (mkc-steadfast)]

The fix mentioned in #1 has been applied to the github version mentioned in #2. So install the github version.