> -----Original Message-----
> From: Corni Beerse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 10:15 AM
> To: Kelly F. Hickel
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Why does VNC server on unix just die?
>
> Kelly F. Hickel wrote:
>
> > I've been seeing the following behavior for quite awhile, and I'm
> > getting tired of it, so I thought I'd ask....
> >
> >
> >
> >>From time to time, I'll go to connect to a VNC server session and it
> > will have exited. There's nothing in the VNC or machine logs, the X
> > lock files in /tmp have been orphaned, and the VNC/X process is gone.
> > I've seen this with RealVNC servers ranging from v3.3 through v4b4, and
> > I've seen it on solaris, RH 7.2, RH 8, RH 9, and Fedora. I've seen it
> > on my office lan, and on my home lan.. Sometimes it seems to happen
> > while a client is connected, but it also happens when no client is
> > connected. Usually it seems to happen "off hours", although I've seen
> > it happen during the day. Sometimes it's over the weekend, other times
> > just overnight. I haven't been able to find any pattern, nor any clue
> > to what's happening. Other users at my company (using different servers
> > and clients) have also seen this.
> >
> >
> >
> > Anybody else seen it? Any clues?
>
> Investigatons include settings of used stuff that can make this happen:
> - autologout from the window manager or display manager (gnome, kde, cde
> etc)
> - bad connections: If a vnc-session detects a missing connection, the
> viewer
> fails. If it does not detect a missing connection (there is no keyboard or
> mouse
> action) then the network can be disconnected an connected after which the
> session continues...
> - automatic clearing of X11 sockets (I've seen this on Solaris)
>
> Since you use many versions of Xvnc (and vncviewer) I dont expect them to
> be
> problematic.
[Kelly F. Hickel]
Thanks for the suggestions, this doesn't always happen when a viewer is connected, so
I think that rules out the broken connection problems. There's no autologout,
sometimes I'll have a server session on my main linux box up for weeks, other times it
dies every night for awhile....
>
> CBee
>
-Kelly
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