Cannot get Remmina to work

[priteshj]

Hello,

I'm new to Ubuntu and need to be able to remote desktop to Windows 2008 servers to provide support to my company(preferably from my Ubuntu laptop so that I can get rid of windows). I tried RDP but was not happy with it. I found a product called Remmina and after spending some time on google I found the following command to install in on Ubuntu 10.10:

sudo apt-get install remmina

Then I tried launching it from the menu item and nothing happened. I then tried running it from the command line: /usr/bin/remmina and I get the following error:

Remmina plugin RDP (type=Protocol) registered.
Remmina plugin RDPF (type=File) registered.
Remmina plugin RDPS (type=Tool) registered.
xkbLayout: za xkbVariant:
Segmentation fault

I also tried installing as follows:

sudo apt-get install remmina remmina-plugin-data remmina-plugin-nx remmina-plugin-rdp remmina-plugin-telepathy remmina-plugin-vnc remmina-plugin-xdmcp

Still getting the Segmentation fault error.

Has anyone else experienced this? Any suggestions on how to fix?

Thank you

Regards
Pritesh

[spietkop]

Running Maverick 64 bit and had the same issue,so looking at the problem closer:
xkbLayout: za xkbVariant:

Points me to a keyboard layout issue, so I changed it to US,
I then removed the South Africa layout and added United Kingdom

How?
System, Preferences, Keyboard
Add button is found under the LAYOUTS tab

Rebooted my laptop and it was working.

[Sidster]

Hey there fellow South Africans

This fix isn't working for me on Natty

Every time I remove the ZA layout it just comes back after a reboot. I think a more permanent solution would be to notify the developer or submit a bug report on launchpad

I don't have the time now but will probably get to it this week sometime.

[Sidster]

I've logged the bug on Launchpad and will start a thread on the remmina forums

Launchpad bug #794415

[AcidHawk]

Still no news on this ..

I am getting the problem in 11.10 also - about to try the keyboard change from za to us ...

[AcidHawk]

Nope ... still doesn't work!

changed my Keyboard to US and to UK but still no luck.

Remmina still gets a seg fault.

I hope they sort this out some time soon ....

[eugenevdm]

Same problem here ZA Keyboard, we tried changing Keyboard Layout, it remembered the US layout, but Remmina segfault.

[priteshj]

I had this working under Ubuntu 10.10 just after I posted the initial problem in Jan 2011. Now a year later I decided to reinstall my T61 with 11.10 and the dreaded segmentation fault error is back . Is this problem only affecting South Africa keyboard users? Has anyone else got this to work.

Thank you
Pritesh

[eugenevdm]

I hope we get this sorted. My users can't perform a backup to flash because of this issue. Only Remmina was the client that could connect to a remote store.

[Trance101]

Hi,

I managed to find a workaround to this. You can edit your XkbLayout in the following file: /etc/default/keyboard

$ gksudo gedit /etc/default/keyboard

Then change XKBLAYOUT="za" to XKBLAYOUT="us". After this you will need to reboot and Remmina should start.