[THIN] Re: Urgent Issue -- "Please Wait for Local Session Manager"

  • From: Joe Shonk <joe.shonk@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 13:36:43 -0700

Perhaps I should explain.  Most of us know each other off list too so we kid 
around one in a while. Honestly I don't have an answer for Paul. Most of our 
customers have ditch Windows 2008.  It's the Vista version for server. I avoid 
it like the plague. 

Joe

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On Mar 20, 2013, at 12:25 PM, "Aljets, Paul" <PAljets@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Not at all J
>  
> As for your email to me, I just looked over my inbox and I don’t find one 
> from you.. 
>  
> Perhaps it got caught in my SPAM filter?
>  
> From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf 
> Of Dan Dill
> Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2013 12:18 PM
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [THIN] Re: Urgent Issue -- "Please Wait for Local Session Manager"
>  
> Hey Paul,
>  
> Maybe I’m being a troll but I emailed you privately in regards to a thread 
> you started about a profile cleanup script and never heard back from you 
> (seems like it’s pretty easy to copy/paste into an email was my thought).  I 
> had shared what little I had to contribute and hoped that helped you find a 
> solution and also might improve my solution at the same time.  That’s the 
> point of these lists right?  They’re ideally a two way street, sharing of 
> information, kum-by-ya and all??  Of course the level of obligation to a list 
> is exactly zero so whatever.
>  
> However if you were expecting a solution from someone else on the list and 
> were hinting at disappointment with a statement like this:
>  
> “Two replies from the most knowledgeable guys I know and you’ve never seen 
> this issue before? J “
>  
> Then I really don’t feel bad for you.  J
>  
> Cheers,
>  
>  
> Dan Dill
>  
> From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf 
> Of Aljets, Paul
> Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2013 11:13 AM
> To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: [THIN] Re: Urgent Issue -- "Please Wait for Local Session Manager"
>  
> Now now, Not all of us can run XA 6.5 with 2008 R2..  As we have apps that 
> aren’t compatible J
>  
> It’s still better then XA 4.5
>  
> J
> --paul
>  
> From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf 
> Of James Rankin
> Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2013 11:02 AM
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [THIN] Re: Urgent Issue -- "Please Wait for Local Session Manager"
>  
> That's becauser they're knowledgeable enough not to use the Vista of XenApp 
> :-0
>  
>  
>  
> 
> On 20 March 2013 17:57, Aljets, Paul <PAljets@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Two replies from the most knowledgeable guys I know and you’ve never seen 
> this issue before? J 
>  
> Paul Aljets
> Sr Citrix Architect
> From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf 
> Of Joe Shonk
> Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2013 10:55 AM
> 
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [THIN] Re: Urgent Issue -- "Please Wait for Local Session Manager"
>  
> Yeah, understandable. Most places don't run Windows 2008.  Those 
> organizations that did go Windows 2008 have since migrated to Windows 2008 R2 
> w/ XenApp 6.5.  Hint, Hint, Wink Wink.
>  
> Joe
> 
> On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 10:41 AM, Webster <webster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> DOH, completely missed that part where you are running 2008.  Sorry about 
> that.
>  
> Webster
>  
> From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf 
> Of Aljets, Paul
> Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2013 1:26 PM
> 
> To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: [THIN] Re: Urgent Issue -- "Please Wait for Local Session Manager"
>  
> This issue is occurring on a Xenapp Presentation Server Running..
>  
> Running XA 5.0  (Platinum Edition)
>  
> The latest released Rollup pack for Win2008 For Xenapp 5.0 is Rolloup 01
>  
> Unless I’m missing something completely J  
>  
> I see a Rollup 07 for Xenapp 4.5  but we’re not running that..
>  
> Paul Aljets
> Sr Citrix Architect
> From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf 
> Of Webster
> Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2013 10:05 AM
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [THIN] Re: Urgent Issue -- "Please Wait for Local Session Manager"
>  
> Why are you just on R01 when R07 has been out for a good while?  Or did you 
> mean XA 6.5 Platinum on 2008 R2?
>  
>  
> Webster
>  
>  
> From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf 
> Of Aljets, Paul
> Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2013 11:41 AM
> To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: [THIN] Urgent Issue -- "Please Wait for Local Session Manager"
>  
> Let me preface this with the following information
>  
> Environment:
>  
> XA 5 Platinum
> Rollup 01 applied (and a couple post R01 Printing related Hotfixes)
> Citrix Profile Management 4 (Although all users are logging in anonymously on 
> the servers this is impacting)
>  
> Presentation Servers running:  Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition x64bit
> Occurs on both Physical and Virtual machines
> Only occurring in “One” of our 2 Datacenters 
>  
> MS KB2661001 already applied and issue still occurring.
>  
> When launching a Published app or attempting to RDP against an affected 
> server the user receives the message “Please Wait for Local Session Manager”  
> and it will just sit there. Sometimes eventually logging the user in ~15 
> minutes later but more frequently it just sits forever
> The only “Fix” is to either reboot the server, or forcefully terminate IMA 
> and restart.
>  
> It should be noted I had a memory dump sent to  MS for analysis what they 
> came back with is the following:
>  
> The analysis from the MS Debugging team shows that LSM (Local session 
> manager) is blocked on a chain of blocked threads that leads up to Citrix’s 
> ImaSrv service. In this process there request processing threads are blocked 
> on a lock that is owned by another thread within ImaSrv and this lock owning 
> thread has been waiting from past ~4 minutes to receive acknowledgement of a 
> RPC bind packet that it has sent to mydomaincontroller.domain.com over TCP 
> transport at port 49156. The client will wait for a timeout period of ~15 
> minutes. As such I don’t see if this request is blocked in the local network 
> stack, but appears that the DC has not been responding. IMASrv has issued 
> DsCrackNames on "MYDOMAIN\UserID1234" to convert the directory service object 
> names from one format to another. However what we are interested here is to 
> understand why RPC bind didn’t complete.
>  
>  
> Forcefully terminating IMA and restarting it, “Fixes” the error for the time 
> being. But if ANYONE has seen this issue before and has any suggestions I 
> would welcome them.
> I have a case open with Citrix, and they’re analyzing the memory dump as 
> well, but I thought I would ask the brain trust to see if they had any 
> suggestions. J
>  
>  
> This is a new one on me.  Any assistance is welcome!
>  
> Paul Aljets
> Sr Citrix Admin
> Stanford Hospitals and Clinics
>  
>  
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> James Rankin
> Technical Consultant (ACA, CCA, MCTS)
> http://appsensebigot.blogspot.co.uk

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