RDP session fails to open, black screen appears briefly and the connection stops

RDP session fails to open, black screen appears briefly and the connection stops

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Article ID: CTX460134

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Description

  • Cannot start RDP session on VDA. A black screen appears briefly and the connection stops.

Environment

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Resolution

Trace analysis shows the failure was caused by the unexpected access to an existing session entry (HKLM\SOFTWARE\Citrix\Ica\Session\Session_ID) with the same session ID as the RDP session.

The session entries in this key correspond to HDX sessions that are no longer active.

To resolve the issue remove all session IDs for sessions that are no longer active.

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Problem Cause

Stale info in the registry.

Additional Information

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