Empty desktop on 11.10

[David Gradwell]

After upgrading from 11.04 to 11.10 using the normal upgrade mechanism XRDP fails to work properly.

Login is OK.

Only a blank background is displayed when I connect from Windows 7.

A similar bug was reported in 11.10 beta and appears not to have been fixed.

I'm running the production version.

I also get the same blank background if I connect from another Ubuntu machine running Ubuntu 10 using Applcations/Internet/Remote Desktop Viewer.

Repeatable.

[David Gradwell (david-gradwell)]

See also Bug #846407.

[Tapani Talvitie (tapani-talvitie)]

Here the same.

I did a fresh installation of Ubuntu 11.10 x64. After that I installed xrdp. Then I installed all available updates. First attempts to login with RDP from Windows 7 resulted a plain desktop background to show up.

After I changed resolution from Windows RDP to 1024x768 I was able to see top menu (though missing some buttons from top-right corner) and Desktop files but nothing more.

I then created .xsession file to my home folder and wrote there: gnome-session --session=ubuntu-2d

and rebooted to get fresh RDP session (since I'm a bit noob with Linux and did not know a way to force logout when there was no terminal and menus visible. Ctrl+Alt+Del did not work though Windows RDP)

After this procedure I'm now able too see the left pane too. Though there seems to be some icons missing (blank buttons which though do work when pressed).

Hope this info helps to solve the problem. If needed, I can attach logs etc.

[Tapani Talvitie (tapani-talvitie)]

Now that I see the left pane I'm also able to access Terminal. From there it is fair easy to log out from the RDP session by typing:

gnome-session-quit

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.