Re: Fedora 9 and Citrix issue

I would respectfully disagree with your assessment, Mike, for the following reasons:

 

When booting the Fedora 7 Live CD, and installing the tar.gz version of the most recent Citrix client, everything works fine, with no problems.  I am able to open an application window which successfully connects with the application.  There is no OpenMotif installed on the system; neither is there a /usr/lib/libXm.so.3 file on the system.

 

In Fedora 8, when using a base install of the O.S. (i.e. no updates), and having installed the same version of the Citrix client - again, the tar.gz version - the Citrix application window opens, states "Processing Replies from Server", and closes.  The application does not launch.  However, once I update the libxcb package, Citrix again functions normally.  Again, no OpenMotif is installed on the system.

 

In Fedora 9 (Live CD) Citrix is again broken.  Same version of the client.  The "Processing Replies from Server" window opens (more slowly than in 7 or 8) and closes without launching the application.

 

The Citrix client used in all 3 examples is the same; OpenMotif was not installed on any of the systems.  In Fedora 7 it is working; in Fedora 8 it was broken but then worked; in Fedora 9 it is broken again.  At least in the earlier versions of Fedora, OpenMotif was not needed.  What changed between the Fedora versions that would have this effect?

 

I certainly don't mean to be adversarial in my discussion; I am just trying to figure out a way to minimize the need for non-standard packages.  I do thank you for the input so far, and hope to hear more suggestions.  :-)

 

Thanks,

Todd

----- Original Message ----
From: Mike Fleetwood <mike.fleetwood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, April 14, 2008 5:25:53 PM
Subject: Re: Fedora 9 and Citrix issue

I am with Richard on this.  The documented work around by Citrix is to
use OpenMotif 2.3 to provide the 2.2 API by creating the Symbolic link
to make /usr/lib/libXm.so.3 -> libXm.so.4.

"Failed Dependency: libXm.so.3 ... When Installing the ICA Client for Unix"
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX110537

"The Presentation Server Client for Linux Fail to Launch and Reports no Errors"
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX115404

"Question: ICAClient 9 instalation on Fedora Core 5 !!"
http://support.citrix.com/forums/thread.jspa?messageID=463392


I don't see how upgrading libxcb (C-lang binding for the X11 protocol)
would have provided libXm (Motif runtime libraries).  On my Fedora 8
box I have the following:
[mike@rockover ~]$ rpm -q libxcb openmotif
libxcb-1.0-4.fc8
openmotif-2.3.0-0.1.9.3
[mike@rockover ~]$ rpm -q --provides libxcb | grep libXm
[mike@rockover ~]$ rpm -q --provides openmotif | grep libXm
libXm.so.4
[mike@rockover ~]$ ls -l /usr/lib/libXm.so.4
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 2006-06-24 00:03 /usr/lib/libXm.so.4 -> libXm.so.4.0.0


I recommend you implement this workaround for Fedora 9 too.

Mike

On 14/04/2008, Todd N <todd655495@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thanks for the reply, Richard.  However, in Fedora 8, when using the tar.gz
> version (again, not the rpm) of the Citrix client we did not need to install
> openmotif.  The same problem did exist as I described below after installing
> the client; however all we needed to do was update to the latest version of
> libxcb and the problem ceased to occur.  Now in Fedora 9, the same Citrix
> client, with the most recent libxcb package, is not working again.
>
> While your solution may have worked for you, it seems to me somewhat
> jury-rigged (no offense intended) and if possible we'd like to avoid a
> similar setup here.  We were able to get the Citrix client to work in F8 by
> simply updating another package (libxcb); it would seem reasonable that
> something similar should work in Fedora 9.
>
> Thanks,
> Todd
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Richard Shaw <hobbes1069@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 8:51:44 PM
> Subject: Re: Fedora 9 and Citrix issue
>
> 2008/4/8 Todd N <todd655495@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > Hello,
> >
> > In testing Fedora 9 (using the live CD) I am encountering a problem using
> > the Linux Citrix client provided on the Citrix web site.  After installing
> > the Citrix client successfully, using the tar.gz version (not the rpm), I
> am
> > able to log into and launch the MetaFrame Presentation Server, but when I
> > select an application I get a window stating "Processing Replies from
> > Server" which is present for about 2 seconds, then vanishes.  The
> > application window is never launched.
> >
> > An important thing to note is that I had this same problem with Fedora 8,
> > and was able to solve it by updating libxcb to the latest version.  Why
> has
> > the issue appeared again in Fedora 9?
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks.
> >
> > Todd
>
> I know the web site states it needs openmotif-2.2. I could only find
> an RPM of 2.3 packaged for F8 at some university (I think I found it
> from rpmbone.net) so even after I installed it I had to do a 'ln -s
> /path/to/2.3-file /path/to/2.2-link" and then it worked fine.
>
> Richard

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