Re: intermittent dropped connections

rdesktop does not have any log file; it writes to standard output. It's 
often useful to check the Windows Event Viewer, though.

You can compile with debug info by using various configure flag; run 
configure --help to see whats available.

Rgds,
Peter

On Tue, 22 Mar 2011, Mike Lenner wrote:

> [bump]
>
> Hoping someone can just point me to how I can gather further info to
> debug my problem.  Log files?  Anyway to run / compile in a debug
> mode?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>
> On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 12:29 PM, Mike Lenner <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Thanks for the response Chris.
>>
>> I actually have been running via the command line.  No real useful
>> info that I see.  When I start up, I see this:
>> autoselected keyboard map en-us
>> WARNING: Remote desktop does not support colour depth 24; falling back to 16
>>
>> When the screen freeze happens, I usually don't see anything on the
>> command line.  However, occasionally, I see this:
>> ERROR: recv: Connection reset by peer
>>
>> Agree that this feels like a networking issue.  But, I'd love to be
>> able to pinpoint that better with some diagnostics of some kind.
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 6:03 AM, Christopher Roberts
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> On Friday 11 Mar 2011, Mike Lenner wrote:
>>>> Periodically, my rdesktop connection drops.  Normally, the symptom is
>>>> just that my screen freezes and I no longer can access the windows
>>>> machine.  I force kill rdesktop and then re-connect and I'm back up
>>>> and running.
>>>>
>>>> I'm just not sure where to turn in terms of debugging this behaviour.
>>>> Are there log files for rdesktop?  A way to run it in "verbose" mode?
>>>> Or, has anyone seen this before?  Any help would be greatly
>>>> appreciated.
>>>>
>>>> rdesktop: version 1.6.0
>>>> linux: Fedora, Linux 2.6.35.11-83.fc14.x86_64
>>>> windows: Windows 7 Professional
>>>
>>> One simple thing strikes me - try running it from the command line for a
>>> while - then any errors will be output to the terminal.
>>>
>>> I would imagine that there is a networking issue that is interrupting the
>>> connection.
>>>
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