Re: [Condor-users] Windows 2000 / Visible Desktop

[Robert Mortensen <bobm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It is mentioned below that there is an upcoming fix to the bug where
USE_VISIBLE_DESKTOP eventually runs out of ACE's. What is the timeframe
for this fix? It mentions the next release, but I just tried 7.0.4 on  
Vista and
get the same behavior. (Although for Vista you need to enable the  
"Interactive
Services Detection" service in order to gain access to the "visible  
desktop").

Thanks,
Bob Mortensen

On Jun 19, 2008, at 8:06 AM, Ben Burnett wrote:

> Hi  Kristian:
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: condor-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:condor-users-
> > bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Desjardins, Kristian
> > Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 9:23 AM
> > To: condor-users@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [Condor-users] Windows 2000 / Visible Desktop
> >
> > I am having problems with Windows 2000 Professional and the
> > "USE_VISIBLE_DESKTOP" option.  I have tried condor 6.8.8, 7.0.1 and
> > 7.1.0 and they all behave the same.
> >
> > On a freshly booted system, I will see the condor_starter process and
> > all sub processes use the Windows Station handle of winsta0 and the
> > application is visible.  After a number of jobs, the processes will
> > have
> > a separate session handles like "WindowsStation-XXX-XXX" and I will
> > received the error:
> >
> > 6/18 14:47:11 Create_Process: Unable to use visible desktop
> >
> > I believe I have tracked down the problem to the
> > "setuserobjectsecurity"
> > system call which returns the ERROR_NOT_ENOUGH_QUOTA error code.
> > Please
> > see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/185292  It looks like ACE's may  
> > not
> > be free'd at some point and I don't know how to fix the problem.
>
>
> Yes, we have been made aware of this bug and are working on a fix for
> the next release.  As you guessed, we are not properly releasing old
> sessions from the desktops list of permitted users.  We never  
> anticipated
> users running with the option turned on all the time, it was  
> intended for
> debugging purposes, but it appears that more and more people are  
> using it
> in production.  Sorry for the inconvenience.
>
>
> > Also, Condor 7.0.2 does not even start on windows 2000 pro.  I get  
> > the
> > following error:
> >
> > 6/17 09:44:45 ERROR "Unexpected performance counter size for working
> > set: 4 (expected 8)" at line 2878 in file
> > ..\src\condor_procapi\procapi.C
>
> That's quite odd, is this still a fresh Win2K box? Does it have all  
> the
> Service packs applied?  Have the performance counters been disabled or
> Otherwise changed?
>
> Regards,
> -B
>
> btw, on a personal note, what is my Government using Condor for? (We  
> can
> take this part offline, since it's completely off topic for the list)
>
>
>
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