michael schuster wrote: > michael schuster wrote: >> Alan Steinberg wrote: >>> Hi Michael. >>> >>> I have experienced this too. The screensaver gets locked and just >>> doesn't come back to give you an unlock prompt. I worked around it by >>> logging in remotely to the system running the VNC server, and then >>> killing the xscreensaver that was running. The more permanent solution >>> would probably be to disable the screensaver in the first place after >>> logging into the VNC session. >> I followed Alan's advice and disabled automatic screen locking in the VNC >> session. When I returned this morning, all worked well ... now, after a >> lunch break, I wanted to open a new window in this VNC session, and got an >> error: >> >>> Xlib: connection to ":1.0" refused by server >>> XlibL No protocol specified >>> >>> Error: Can't open display: :1.0 >> this happens for any X-based application, AFAICT. looking at ps's output, I >> can't find a process that started today (MET), so maybe this would have >> happened this morning too if I'd tried. > > I created a second VNC session and then fooled around with truss a little > bit; it seems the difference between the working and non-working version is > the existence of /tmp/ssh-xauth-<random-string>/xauth, where > <random-string> is the argument to the -xauth option of Xvnc and different > for each vnc session, and which exists for the new one and not for the old > (non-working) one. > > interestingly enough, even 'vncserver -kill <new session>' doesn't cause > removal of the associated /tmp/ssh-xauth-* directory, so I'd be curious to > hear of any experience about similar cases that anybody else may have to > share about this (and how to avoid this ...) > > TIA > Michael
I think this http://blogs.sun.com/DaveM/entry/strange_interaction_of_vnc_and explains it rather well - all the symptoms match. looks a little strange to me, and if someone has a more useful way of fixing this, please let's hear it. thx Michael -- Michael Schuster http://blogs.sun.com/recursion Recursion, n.: see 'Recursion' _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
