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Horizon agent (2406) on Debian depends on deprecated package libdbus-glib-1-2


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Hi

Recently our Debian based VDIs stopped working, that is, when trying to login, it hangs for a while before the VMs are deleted. I turns out the reason is that the horizon agent requires the package libdbus-glib-1-2 to be installed, and recently Firefox stopped depending on this package as it is deprecated. So it used to work only because Firefox depended on the package.

The horizon agent installer has some tests for required tools, e.g. installerlib.sh:common_command_check, which ensures common tools like which and hexdump are installed. However, the dependency on the libdbus-glib-1-2 package is not tested at install time. The result of the missing package is failure to log into the VDI, however, the the VDIs seem healthy in horizon view before the VMs are deleted.

Looking at the docs, the list of mandatory packages is severely lacking: https://docs.omnissa.com/bundle/Desktops-and-Applications-in-HorizonV2406/page/InstallLinuxDependencyPackagesforHorizonAgent.html

You need to take this seriously, and update the docs. This is not good at all.

 

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Hello @Bendik, thank you for bringing this to our attention!

I have forwarded your feedback to our internal docs teams and I've received a confirmation that they're processing the edit request.

Please feel free to continue this conversation with further comments or questions.  

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