Bug 1279146 - Refresh Issues leads VNC to be unusable
Summary: Refresh Issues leads VNC to be unusable
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: tigervnc
Version: 23
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jan Grulich
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard:
: 1277326 (view as bug list)
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-11-08 06:28 UTC by Mike Kwong
Modified: 2016-01-20 18:13 UTC (History)
10 users (show)

Fixed In Version: tigervnc-1.5.0-4.fc23
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Environment:
Last Closed: 2015-11-23 00:22:49 UTC
Type: Bug
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Description Mike Kwong 2015-11-08 06:28:47 UTC
Description of problem:
After upgrading to Fedora 23, I'm experiencing severe refresh issues, such that VNC is no longer usable. After rendering the screen, large parts of the screen would seemingly turn blank or flash back to a previous state / program rendering, and the viewer would seem out of sync with what is actually going on.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gtk-vnc2.x86_64                          0.5.4-2.fc23              @@commandline
gvnc.x86_64                              0.5.4-2.fc23              @@commandline
libvncserver.x86_64                      0.9.10-0.7.20140718git9453be42.fc23
tigervnc-license.noarch                  1.5.0-3.fc23              @@commandline
tigervnc-server.x86_64                   1.5.0-3.fc23              @@commandline
tigervnc-server-minimal.x86_64           1.5.0-3.fc23              @@commandline

How reproducible:
Happens consistently after Fedora 23 upgrade. (Was working fine before that.)

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set up ssh tunneling
2. Connect using either RealVNC chrome extension, or TigerVNC client from MacOS X
3.

Actual results:
severe refresh issues, such that VNC is no longer usable. After rendering the screen, large parts of the screen would seemingly turn blank or flash back to a previous state / program rendering, and the viewer would seem out of sync with what is actually going on.

Expected results:
Viewer should show the expected screen accurately, with minimal delay

Additional info:

Comment 1 Chris Egolf 2015-11-11 02:14:40 UTC
I'm experiencing the same thing using the vncviewer client included in tigervnc-1.5.0-3.fc23.x86_64.  The VNC server is tigervnc-server-1.5.0-3.fc23.x86_64 using the standard GNOME desktop.  If I revert to the twm session, the screen refresh problem goes away. 

All the systems involved are now Fedora 23 and did not have this issue prior to the upgrade.

Comment 2 Pete McDonnell 2015-11-19 14:04:40 UTC
As noted in:

https://github.com/TigerVNC/tigervnc/issues/235#issuecomment-157980861

I believe this may be an issue in the compiled RPM.  When I downloaded the source RPM and rebuilt it using:

rpmbuild --rebuild tigervnc-1.5.0-3.fc23.src.rpm 

Then upgraded all built RPMs from rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/ (rpm -Uvh *)

the issue was resolved.

As noted by another poster in the linked thread, The following was found in the vnc server log before/after the install of the rebuilt version:

Binary RPM provided by Fedora 23 shows this message in the log:
Underlying X server release 11799901, The X.Org Foundation

Rebuilt RPM shows this message in the log:
Underlying X server release 11800000, The X.Org Foundation

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2015-11-19 14:53:58 UTC
tigervnc-1.5.0-4.fc23 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 23. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-4b843c0edd

Comment 4 Bojan Smojver 2015-11-20 03:23:08 UTC
*** Bug 1277326 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2015-11-20 11:24:23 UTC
tigervnc-1.5.0-4.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
If you want to test the update, you can install it with
$ su -c 'dnf --enablerepo=updates-testing update tigervnc'
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-4b843c0edd

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2015-11-23 00:22:43 UTC
tigervnc-1.5.0-4.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 7 Martin Sebor 2016-01-20 18:13:22 UTC
I still see this problem with tigervnc-server.1.6.0-1.fc23.


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