[Spice-devel] Win32 Spice client won't start

[Peter Daum]

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).

Any ideas what is going on?

Regards,
                         Peter