Daniel, You state that you are disconnecting either by kill -9'ing the vncviewer (which is overkill and not necessary in all but extreme cases) or by using Exit from the F8 menu.
Are you sure that the user is not actually disconnecting by selecting Logout from their window manager on the server? Wez @ RealVNC Ltd. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Daniel Hornung > Sent: 03 September 2004 11:53 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Serious bug with X forwarding? > > Since I've not heard anything about this since last month, > I'll just post it again to see if anyone can confirm this problem. > Or if someone could tell me where to post an 'official' bug > report? This is a quite annoying problem, preventing us from > using vnc (which generally is a great program) as often as > we'd like to. ;-/ > > If it helps, I could of course also post our XF86config and the logs. > > Thanks in advance, > Daniel > > > Hello all, > > I'm not quite sure if this is a bug or a feature: > > > > We are using the current version of RealVNC (4.0.1, rpm) as an XF86 > > extension to forward the current display (usually :0) to a > number of > > clients. The configuration of the XF86Config doesn't seem to be a > > problem, the module and options (such as the password file > and whether > > to accept shared connections (always)) are fully recognized > according > > to the logs and any number of clients (both Windows and > Linux, RealVNC > > 3.3.7 and > > 4.0.1) can connect at the same time and share the desktop. > > > > The problem arises when the Linux clients disconnect, there's no > > problem with the Windows clients. The disconnecting of the first > > client works fine, but when the second client disconnects, the > > VNC-server seems to restart, and the whole X System with it -> > > Windowmanager is halted -> X (with VNC) restarts -> > Windowmanager restarts. > > > > Procedure to reproduce: > > 1) Start VNC-Server (RealVNC 4.0.1) as X module (see > > http://www.realvnc.com/v4/x0.html ) for further instructions > > 2) Connect from another linux-machine with any version of > the RealVNC > > vncviewer to the server > > 3) Shut down the vncviewer (with kill -9 or F8 -> Exit viewer) > > 4) Repeat steps 2) and 3) > > 5) X server on the first machine will restart > > > > Either we've missed something obvious (in which case we'd be happy > > about your advice) or the server is buggy (which we'd like to have > > confirmed), so please just try it out and tell about your > experiences. > > > > Thanks, Daniel Hornung > > > > University of Goettingen > _______________________________________________ > VNC-List mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To remove yourself from the list visit: > http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
