Slicer 4.9. (r27399) crashes on startup in Windows remote session

[ihnorton (Isaiah Norton)]

Please see the following thread, and in particular two posts:

Slicer Remote access

Slicer 4.9 minimum OpenGL requirements have been increased. Does this answer your questions? https://issues.slicer.org/view.php?id=4252 If not, then please write exact version of your Slicer, operating system, and remote desktop application.

Slicer Remote access

The link from lassoan above describes the issue: Windows RDP client does not support newer OpenGL versions, and so Slicer crashes – unfortunately without a useful error message yet. The suggestion is to try VNC or NoMachine. I can confirm NoMachine works with recent Slicer builds from a Mac client to a Linux host. I haven’t tried it with a Windows client, but it should probably work fine.

Suggestions are: use TeamViewer, use VNC, or start Slicer before connecting with Remote Desktop.

Hope that helps!