Bug 39144

Summary: Win32 Spice client won't start
Product: Spice Reporter: gator_ml
Component: spicec (deprecated)Assignee: Spice Bug List <spice-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: major    
Priority: medium    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: x86 (IA32)   
OS: Windows (All)   
Whiteboard:
i915 platform: i915 features:

Description gator_ml 2011-07-11 08:32:34 UTC 
I am trying to run the Win32 spice client on Windows XP SP3. In some cases it works, but normally the program terminates immediately without any indication what might go wrong. The only hint about what is happening are these entries in spicec.log:

1310140678 INFO [1676:1648] Platform::set_clipboard_owner: new clipboard owner: none
1310140678 INFO [1676:1648] PlatformWinProc: Unsupported clipboard format
1310140678 ERROR [1676:1648] WinMain: unhandle exception: set clipboard viewer failed

The 1st 2 lines are always logged, even if the program works.

Just copying the files from spice-space.org to the windows directory never worked. On 1 machine, I can run the spice client when I install it with this installation program:
http://www.foss-cloud.org/download/spice-client-0.6.3-setup-2.exe
but on all other machines this does not work either.

Fascinatingly, the machines I tried it on have identical hardware and almost (some minor variations which programs are installed) identical software (freshly installed with a software management system).
Comment 1 gator_ml 2011-07-21 03:09:45 UTC 
... In the meantime, I could figure out the difference between the machines where the spice client works and those where it will immediately terminate. It seems like it indeed has something to do with the clipboard handling: In all cases where spicec.exe will actually start, there is some other program running that is doing something with the keyboard. If windows is actually running on a virtual machine this is almost always the case, so it works there.

On "real" machines however, I only can run the windows client (on Windows XP) if I additionally not only install, but actually execute some other program (the simplest such thing I could find is any of a variety of different clipboard managers or the like).

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