Univention Bugzilla – Bug 30329
Computer cannot be accessed sometimes although iTALC is running
Last modified: 2013-06-07 21:40:39 CEST
During an iTALC session, it happens fairly often that a computer is shown as switched off although iTALC is up and running. It then suffices to log out and in again on the windows client.
iTALC seems to block sometime on the Linux side and on the Windows side. netstat shows that there are a lot of pending bytes for a iTALC tcp connections but client(Windows) or server(Linux) do not try to read it from tcp socket. After some time, the congestion vanishes and the iTALC connection seems to work normal.
(In reply to comment #1) > iTALC seems to block sometime on the Linux side and on the Windows side. > netstat shows that there are a lot of pending bytes for a iTALC tcp connections > but client(Windows) or server(Linux) do not try to read it from tcp socket. At least in one case iTALC was not the culprit. If a windows host with activated firewall crashes, it drops all incoming unknown packages after rebooting. Due to this behaviour the linux TCP stack is unable to determine if the host is offline, unreachable or firewalled (and tries it again and again and again.... with increasing timeouts). Since the computer room module requests every second the name of the logged in user, it now checks if the last response of the iTALC client was longer than 10 seconds ago. If this is the case, the UMC modules tries to reestablish a new iTALC connection to the iTALC client. The automatic reconnect also helps with other deadlocks that may occur with iTALC. The timeout of 10 seconds may be adjusted by the UCR variable ucsschool/umc/computerroom/core/timeout (no value == 10 seconds). ucs-school-umc-computerroom (2.0.33-1) unstable; urgency=low Changelog entry has been committed.
From Ticket#: 2013011621000879: Tobias Doerffel wrote: > BTW: ich habe gestern Abend noch einen kritischen Fix für eine Race > Condition committet - iTALC sollte in der ItalcCore-Bibliothek nun > deutlich seltener abstürzen. Daneben noch ein paar Kleinigkeiten. Wenn 3 commits have been merged into our packages "italc" and "italc-windows". italc (2:2.0.14-1) unstable; urgency=low italc-windows (1.0.1-1) unstable; urgency=low
I've already tested the stability for Bug #30827, #30828, … Furthermore, I've tested the handling with the Windows firewall as it is described here. Bug: OK Changelog: OK > I have tested the following cases: > > - Installation > - Video/Demo mode > - Screen (un)lock > - Input devices (un)lock > - Shutdown > - Reboot > - Log off > > Specific to the UMC module: > - Switch room > - Take over a room > - Session timeout > > Cases where it is possible to select multiple machines for the abovementioned > actions have been tested too. Looks solid! > > Systems: > - Windows XP 32-Bit > - Windows XP 64-Bit > - Windows 7 32-Bit > - Windows 7 64-Bit > - Windows 8 32-Bit > - Windows 8 64-Bit
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