RE: Cursor arrow turns into a black "X"
Hubert, Matthias <matthias.b.hubert <at> siemens.com>
2008-09-01 10:37:57 GMT
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Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:13:31 -0400
From: Bob Doolittle <Robert.Doolittle <at> Sun.COM>
Subject: Re: [SunRay-Users] RE: Cursor arrow turns into a black "X"
To: SunRay-Users mailing list <sunray-users <at> filibeto.org>
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Hubert, Matthias wrote:
> Hi!
>
> In reply to this post from February:
>
>
>> Anyone run into the following: thin client user is in the middle of
>> working in Windows. All of a sudden, the white mouse cursor turns
into
>> a black "X" and the user loses mouse control [although, in my limited
>> experience, he still has keyboard control]. Doing a "CTL moon" helps
>> but only briefly: anywhere from a few seconds to a few minutes
later,
>> the problem returns.
>>
>> Dave Partington has seen this at his site but his fix had to do with
>> altering the location where the mouse plugs in and this doesn't work
>>
> for
>
>> me. We solved it by moving the user's session off of the SRS [all of
>> the "bad" TCs were on the same SRS but most TCs on that SRS were not
>> experiencing the problem] to another one [we have 3 in the FoG].
>>
>> We're using SRSS 4.0 on Solaris 10 [Sparc] but have not yet applied
the
>> Windows connector patch [127556-01]. After we rebooted the problem
has
>> not returned and we can't reproduce it either.
>>
>> We got a lot of errors in /var/opt/SUNWut/log/messages:
>>
>> Jan 31 05:34:05 rsunsu01 utxconfig[18012]: [ID 702911 user.info]
Error:
>> could not open file '/var/opt/SUNWut/displays/11' for reading.
>>
>> These errors were happening while the users were having the problems
>>
> but
>
>> persisted after the problem went away [with the switch of SRS] so I
>> think it was coincidence. The display # didn't exist in the "utwho
>>
> -ca"
>
>> output so we couldn't trace it to an actual TC.
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> Scott
>>
>
>
> We have a similar problem to this. But this not only happen to Windows
> as well as working in terminal.
> Mouse pointer turns into black X and after a while the SunRay OSD
shows
> a window complaining that there is no network available, although
> keyboard is working fine. After pressing ESC you can work for approx.
10
> min, before problems starting again. The only workaround I could find,
> was changing the smart card to a new one and creating a new session.
But
> this only lasts for a few weeks, after the problem starts again. It is
> not related to the DTU, because the problem is connected to the
session
> as you can move with it to another DTU.
>
> Would be very nice, if someone could help me.
>
Matthais, it seems unlikely that you would need to use a new smart card.
Have you tried simply terminating the original session (either
Ctrl-Alt-Bksp-Bksp or else utsession -k from another login) and creating
a new one with the same smart card? Of course that's not a solution,
but it would help isolate the problem.
What OS are you using? Is it relatively up-to-date with patches? If
Linux, are you using the version of Java supplied with SRSS in the
Supplemental area? It sounds like a problem either in the OS itself or
utauthd/java. Is only one session affected, or are all sessions on that
server affected at the same time?
-Bob
Hi Bob.
We are using SRSS4.0-48 on CentOS4. The CentOS is up2date with patches.
Only the SRSS is missing the latest Patch.
Only a few sessions are affected, but not all on that server. The OSD
shows a 26D error. Creating a new session would help for some days.
utauthd is using java in /etc/opt/SUNWut/jre/bin/java, which is version
1.5.0_11-b03
Thanks for your help
Matthias
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