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

[burnett@xxxxxxxxxxx]

Hi Bob:

It is available in the latest developer release, but I can push the
changes over into the stable release as well, as it seems like it would be
and important improvement.  I will look in to this further tomorrow.

Regards,
-B

> 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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