Connecting to down host freezes the desktop

[Thomas Novin]

Binary package hint: tsclient

When I connect to a RDPv5 host with tsclient the desktop freezes if I connect to a host which is down and does not send anything back.

The only thing that works during freeze is movement of the mouse pointer and you can see that the top panel is updated.

To fix I have to open up a console with CTRL-ALT-F1 and do a killall rdesktop & tsclient.

$ apt-cache policy tsclient
tsclient:
  Installed: 0.150-1ubuntu3
  Candidate: 0.150-1ubuntu3
  Version table:
 *** 0.150-1ubuntu3 0
        500 http://se.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
$ apt-cache policy rdesktop
rdesktop:
  Installed: 1.6.0-2ubuntu1
  Candidate: 1.6.0-2ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 1.6.0-2ubuntu1 0
        500 http://se.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Peter Antoniac (pan1nx)]

This bug is also related to bug #297645 that describes the same behaviour...