[OpenIndiana-discuss] Xvnc woes

[Hans J. Albertsson]

I should point out I have only the xvnc and the tigervnc packages 
installed, i e what seems to be the "base alternatives" for Xvnc


On 2013-03-08 12:25, Hans J. Albertsson wrote:
> I've tried to use the USE methodology here, but it comes up with a big 
> blank...
>
> I have these two machines, as far as I can determine identical in all 
> or at least any "important aspect"... I think.
>
> I have added the various entries in /etc/gdm/custom.conf, started and 
> restarted and restarted and disabled and enabled uzw and so on and so 
> forth.
>
> From a third host I now do
>
> vncviewer IPADDRESS
>
> for the respective host.
>
> To one it all works. Seemingly in a stable manner. I have tested for a 
> few days.
>
> On the other host it doesn't work. Not at all. I get
>
> vncviewer <address witheld to protect the strange>
>
> TigerVNC Viewer for X version 1.0.1
> Copyright (C) 2002-2005 RealVNC Ltd.
> Copyright (C) 2000-2006 TightVNC Group
> Copyright (C) 2004-2009 Peter Astrand for Cendio AB
> See http://www.tigervnc.org for information on TigerVNC.
>
> Fri Mar  8 11:53:16 2013
>  CConn:       connected to host <address witheld to protect the 
> strange> port 5900
>  main:        End of stream
>
> all the time.
>
> gdm remains up, as does xvnc-inetd. There are no processes that can be 
> associated in any way with the connection attempt.
>
> Ideas anyone?? What might be the problem?? I guess some config detail 
> somewhere, but I'd much rather know what the problem was than just do 
> a clean install and see if a pristine system would fare better...
>
> I tried nmap -A -v to both, and the difference is entirely due to the 
> visibly successful vnc sessions to the functional one.
>
> I hate these Huh, WHAT??? sessions with computers.
>
>
>
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