Connection error: rdg_tls_connect:freerdp_set_last_error_ex ERRCONNECT_TLS_CONNECT_FAILED

Problem Description

I have been using remmina and/or xfreerdp to remote connect to my office computer for several years. xfreerdp/remmina worked successfully on Linux Mint 19.1, 19.3 and 20.2. To connect to my office computer, my company generates an rdp file on the fly that I usually open with remmina or xfreerdp with the following command:

xfreerdp <filename>.rdp /u:<myusername>

In my previous Linux Mint (20.2) installation I was using xfreerdp v:2.2.0/Remmina 1.4.2

When I upgraded my PC to Linux Mint 21 the command above (and even remmina) returns the following error message:

[ERROR][com.freerdp.core] - rdg_tls_connect:freerdp_set_last_error_ex ERRCONNECT_TLS_CONNECT_FAILED [0x00020008]

I searched on line and came across a forum where someone had the same problem:

https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2474812

I have another PC where I re-installed Linux Mint 20.2 and everything works fine with remmina v1.4.2 and xfreerdp v2.2.0. I therefore believe there the problem is with the client (not the server).

I would love to downgrade the software but there is no version 1.4.2 avaialabe for my linux distro

What is the expected correct behavior?

connect to the server

Remote System Description

• Server (OS name and version): Windows 10

Local System Description

• Client (OS name and version): Linux Mint 21

• Remmina version ( remmina --version ): 1.4.29

• Installation(s):

  • Distribution package.
  • PPA.
  • Snap.
  • Flatpak.
  • Compiled from sources.
  • Other - detail:

• Desktop environment (GNOME, Unity, KDE, ..): Cinnamon

• Plugin(s):

  • RDP - freerdp version ( xfreerdp --version ): This is FreeRDP version 2.9.0 (2.9.0)
  • VNC
  • SSH
  • SFTP
  • SPICE
  • WWW
  • EXEC
  • Other (please specify):

• GTK back-end (Wayland, Xorg):

• Optional: Include the output of the following commands at the end of this text:

  • remmina --full-version

** Message: 19:09:42.503: Remmina does not log all output statements. Turn on more verbose output by using "G_MESSAGES_DEBUG=all" as an environment variable.
More info available on the Remmina wiki at:
https://gitlab.com/Remmina/Remmina/-/wikis/Usage/Remmina-debugging
Load modules from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/remmina/plugins
Remmina plugin glibsecret (type=Secret) has been registered, but is not yet initialized/activated. The initialization order is 2000.
The glibsecret secret plugin has been initialized and it will be your default secret plugin

org.remmina.Remmina - 1.4.29 (git n/a)

NAME                TYPE            DESCRIPTION                                                     PLUGIN AND LIBRARY VERSION
RDP                 Protocol        RDP - Remote Desktop Protocol                                   RDP plugin: 1.4.29 (Git n/a), Compiled with libfreerdp 2.9.0 (2.9.0), Running with libfreerdp 2.9.0 (rev 2.9.0), H.264 No
RDPF                File            RDP - RDP File Handler                                          RDP plugin: 1.4.29 (Git n/a), Compiled with libfreerdp 2.9.0 (2.9.0), Running with libfreerdp 2.9.0 (rev 2.9.0), H.264 No
RDPS                Preference      RDP - Preferences                                               RDP plugin: 1.4.29 (Git n/a), Compiled with libfreerdp 2.9.0 (2.9.0), Running with libfreerdp 2.9.0 (rev 2.9.0), H.264 No
SPICE               Protocol        SPICE - Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environments  1.4.29    
VNC                 Protocol        Remmina VNC Plugin                                              1.4.29    
VNCI                Protocol        Remmina VNC listener Plugin                                     1.4.29    
glibsecret          Secret          Secured password storage in the GNOME keyring                   1.4.29    

Build configuration: HAVE_ARPA_INET_H=1 HAVE_ERRNO_H=1 HAVE_FCNTL_H=1 HAVE_NETDB_H=1 HAVE_NETINET_IN_H=1 HAVE_NETINET_TCP_H=1 HAVE_SYS_SOCKET_H=1 HAVE_SYS_UN_H=1 HAVE_TERMIOS_H=1 HAVE_UNISTD_H=1 WITH_AVAHI=ON WITH_CLEANUP=OFF WITH_GCRYPT=ON WITH_ICON_CACHE=ON WITH_IPP=OFF WITH_KF5WALLET=ON WITH_KIOSK_SESSION=ON WITH_LIBRARY_VERSIONING=ON WITH_MANPAGES=ON WITH_NEWS=ON WITH_PYTHONLIBS=ON WITH_SSE2=ON WITH_TRANSLATIONS=ON WITH_UPDATE_DESKTOP_DB=ON WITH_X2GO=ON
Build type:          None
CFLAGS:              -g -O2 -ffile-prefix-map=/build/remmina-gk7JOI/remmina-1.4.29+ppa202212201227.rfb19eb5f1.db77dd06a6~ubuntu22.04.1=. -flto=auto -ffat-lto-objects -flto=auto -ffat-lto-objects -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fPIC -Wall -g
Compiler:            GNU, 11.3.0
Target architecture: x64

• sudo lshw -C video

  *-display                 
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: HD Graphics 5500
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 2
       bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
       logical name: /dev/fb0
       version: 09
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom fb
       configuration: depth=32 driver=i915 latency=0 resolution=1920,1080
       resources: irq:49 memory:f6000000-f6ffffff memory:e0000000-efffffff ioport:f000(size=64) memory:c0000-dffff

• uname -a

5.15.0-56-generic

Contributions

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