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

[Ian Chesal <ICHESAL@xxxxxxxxxx>]

We, at Altera, would definitely like to see this in 7.0.x -- we're using
USE_VISIBLE_DESKTOP for our GUI regression testing flows and it works
great save for needing to reboot the machines periodically because of
this problem.

Thanks!

- Ian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: condor-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:condor-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> burnett@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 7:43 PM
> To: Condor-Users Mail List
> Subject: Re: [Condor-users] Windows 2000 / Visible Desktop
>
> 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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