In my case, the error message is different. But regardless the reason of the error, vino-server should self control and not repeat indefinitely the same error again. Following is my error which fills .xsession-errors with Gib of data until my /home partition is filled.
** (update-notifier:30613): DEBUG: --security-updates-unattended: 0 Window manager warning: Buggy client sent a _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW message with a timestamp of 0 for 0x3e00025 (Update Man) Window manager warning: meta_window_activate called by a pager with a 0 timestamp; the pager needs to be fixed. ** (update-notifier:30613): DEBUG: --security-updates-unattended: 0 Window manager warning: Buggy client sent a _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW message with a timestamp of 0 for 0x3e00025 (Update Man) Window manager warning: meta_window_activate called by a pager with a 0 timestamp; the pager needs to be fixed. ** (vino-server:30491): WARNING **: VNC authentication failure from '::ffff:202.196.208.114' 02/03/2013 12:54:23 rfbAuthPasswordChecked: password check failed 02/03/2013 12:54:23 Client ::ffff:202.196.208.114 gone 02/03/2013 12:54:23 Statistics: 02/03/2013 12:54:23 framebuffer updates 0, rectangles 0, bytes 0 ** (vino-server:30491): WARNING **: Deferring authentication of '::ffff:202.196.208.114' for 5 seconds 02/03/2013 12:54:23 Authentication deferred - ignoring client message 02/03/2013 12:54:23 Authentication deferred - ignoring client message 02/03/2013 12:54:23 Authentication deferred - ignoring client message 02/03/2013 12:54:23 Authentication deferred - ignoring client message 02/03/2013 12:54:23 Authentication deferred - ignoring client message [ ... and the above message is repeated until my home partition is filled ...] -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1047679 Title: .xsession-error fills up hard-drive with vino-server errors To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vino/+bug/1047679/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
