Bug 607566

Summary: vnc.so : VNC viewer blocked when dpms becomes active on the server side.
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: RHEL Program Management <pm-rhel>
Component: vncAssignee: Adam Tkac <atkac>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: qe-baseos-daemons
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: urgent    
Version: 5.5CC: atkac, azelinka, fla_2, fnadge, jwest, ofourdan, ovasik, pm-eus, redhat, rkhadgar
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: ZStream
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Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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libvnc.so module to Xorg wasn't able to wake up the main Xorg process when entered to the DPMS standby mode. Now, when libvnc.so receives keyboard or mouse event over network, it wakes up the Xorg and turns down running screensaver.
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Last Closed: 2010-07-27 08:24:30 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Depends On: 581478    
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Description RHEL Program Management 2010-06-24 11:43:33 UTC
This bug has been copied from bug #581478 and has been proposed
to be backported to 5.5 z-stream (EUS).

Comment 6 Martin Cermak 2010-07-14 09:00:45 UTC
According to the HowToTest section [1] and [2], I'm setting the Verified field to Customer.

[1] https://errata.devel.redhat.com/errata/show/9709
[2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=581478#c18

Comment 7 Florian Nadge 2010-07-14 10:07:12 UTC
Technical note added. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field
accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team.

New Contents:
libvnc.so module to Xorg wasn't able to wake up the main Xorg process when entered to the DPMS standby mode. Now, when libvnc.so receives keyboard or mouse event over network, it wakes up the Xorg and turns down running screensaver.

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2010-07-27 08:24:30 UTC
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2010-0563.html