Sounds great - thanks for highlighting it Neil
2009/3/23 William Loucks <[email protected]>: > TigerVNC ( http://www.tigervnc.com/ ) appears to be doing exactly what > we need: providing a libvnc.so which works with the newer modular Xorg > versions (1.4 and higher). TigerVNC is planned for release with Fedora > Core 11. Let's just hope we can interest some Ubuntu developers in > building it against Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy" and 8.10 "Intrepid" and 9.04 > "Jaunty". > > -- > vnc4: vnc4server: libvnc.so crashes Xorg 1.4 on remote keypress or mouseclick > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/247669 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > > Status in “vnc4” source package in Ubuntu: Confirmed > Status in “vnc4” source package in Fedora: Fix Released > > Bug description: > Binary package hint: vnc4server > > Using the libvnc.so module in Xorg 1.4. > > On first keypress or mouseclick by vnc client, Xorg log on vnc server > side shows: > > Backtrace: > 0: /usr/bin/X11/X(xf86SigHandler+0x6a) [0x483d5a] > 1: /lib/libc.so.6 [0x2aeb4a768100] > 2: > /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libvnc.so(_ZN14XserverDesktop8keyEventEjb+0x8b) > [0x2aeb4cd1838b] > 3: > /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libvnc.so(_ZN3rfb16VNCSConnectionST8keyEventEjb+0x103) > [0x2aeb4cd2f213] > 4: > /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libvnc.so(_ZN3rfb16VNCSConnectionST15processMessagesEv+0x30) > [0x2aeb4cd2f300] > 5: > /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libvnc.so(_ZN14XserverDesktop13wakeupHandlerEP6fd_seti+0xf6) > [0x2aeb4cd17c06] > 6: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libvnc.so [0x2aeb4cd0fdd9] > 7: /usr/bin/X11/X(WakeupHandler+0x4e) [0x4526ee] > 8: /usr/bin/X11/X(WaitForSomething+0x204) [0x560e04] > 9: /usr/bin/X11/X(Dispatch+0x9a) [0x44e8aa] > 10: /usr/bin/X11/X(main+0x47d) [0x436c1d] > 11: /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf4) [0x2aeb4a7541c4] > 12: /usr/bin/X11/X(FontFileCompleteXLFD+0x279) [0x435f59] > > Fatal server error: > Caught signal 11. Server aborting > > >From the Debian bug 444697, there apparently is an ABI change in Xorg 1.4 > >that breaks this. The xorg-xerver bits in this package are too old (1.0.2) > >to work with 1.4.1 that is in the xserver-xorg-core package now. > > Be advised that Debian bug 444697 "fixes" this bug by REMOVING libvnc.so. > Quote: > "Removed libvnc.so that do not work with recent xorg. This is a workaround > but solves the grave fault, closes: #444697." > > This tacitly suggests that Xorg does not support libvnc.so at this time. In > any case bug 444697 does not solve the problem. Debian merely removed the > feature that fails and closed the bug. From a project management standpoint, > the non-working libvnc.so is now orphaned and completely untracked (there is > no bug I can find that tracks non-working libvnc.so). The closing of Debian > bug 444697 implies it was fixed when it was not. > -- vnc4: vnc4server: libvnc.so crashes Xorg 1.4 on remote keypress or mouseclick https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/247669 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs -- universe-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/universe-bugs
