The openQA remote desktop test seems quite often to fail with the client showing just a blank white screen, then failing back to the connection selection screen (using Connections as the client). On the server end, we see these log messages that seem significant when it fails: Dec 01 20:34:27 kaermorhen.test.openqa.fedoraproject.org gnome-remote-desktop-daemon[2277]: 0;1;38:5:185m0;1;38:5:185m[DaemonHandover] Failed to request remote desktop handover: Timeout was reached Dec 01 20:34:30 kaermorhen.test.openqa.fedoraproject.org gnome-remote-desktop-daemon[914]: 0;1;38:5:185m0;1;38:5:185m[DaemonSystem] Aborting handover, removing remote client with remote id /org/gnome/RemoteDesktop/Client/3839824341 Dec 01 20:34:30 kaermorhen.test.openqa.fedoraproject.org gnome-remote-desktop-daemon[914]: [20:34:30:186] [914:00000392] [ERROR][com.freerdp.core.peer] - [rdp_set_error_info]: ERRINFO_CB_CONNECTION_CANCELLED [0x00010409] when the test passes, we don't see those messages, we instead see a bunch of expected busywork messages from the session starting up. I'm attaching server log extracts from passed and failed tests covering the same approximate timeframe when the client was attempting to connect to the server.
Created attachment 2117025 [details] log extract from a passed test (showing the session starting normally)
Created attachment 2117026 [details] log extract from a failed test (not much happens for a while after the smartcard errors, then a timeout)
I'm seeing the same symptoms trying to connect to a machine at work. Most of the time it works, but I occasionally get the blank screen and nothing happens thereafter. I've been restarting gnome-remote-desktop then trying again, and that has worked ... until the most recent freerdp update, to version 3.23.0. Now I get the blank screen every single time. I've tried restarting gnome-remote-desktop, rebooting the machine ... no joy. This may be relevant: https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/issues/12388. For now, I've downgraded to 3.22 so I can get some work done.
openQA testing doesn't show the same, Jerry - since 3.23.0 landed in Rawhide we're still seeing the same "sometimes passes, sometimes fails" behavior. e.g. in today's Rawhide it failed on the Workstation live and disk image tests, but passed on the upgrade tests (where we start out at Fedora 44, upgrade to Rawhide, then run the test). On 20260303.n.0 it passed on the disk image test - https://openqa.fedoraproject.org/tests/4373012 . That compose definitely had 3.23.0, I checked.