From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051127 Fedora/1.7.12-1.1.1.legacy Description of problem: Remotely connect to computer as normal user (ie machine:2) which has been booted but has no local login you can run programs as expeccted but when you attempt to drag an icon on the desktop the deshtop disapears and is redrawn with the users home folder opened on the desktop (ie a restart) Proved to be a server problem as the result is the same from two compuers one running windows 98SE and one runing FC1 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): vnc-server-4.1.1-35.1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: see description Actual Results: see description Expected Results: normal behavior Additional info:
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Just wondered has this been forgotten about or will it get fixed post FC5 release.
It was not forgotten, however I am not able to reproduce your bug (with vnc-4.1.1-36) Please send a step by step description how to reproduce it. Thank you.
Also running vnc-4.1.1-36 here. vnc setup as follows :- login as normal user open terminal type vncserver :1 enter desired password re-enter for confirmation vnc now running navigate to .vnc folder and open it and edit the xstarup file un commenting the two lines suggested to enable a normal desktop. xstartup as edited #!/bin/sh # Uncomment the following two lines for normal desktop: unset SESSION_MANAGER exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc [ -x /etc/vnc/xstartup ] && exec /etc/vnc/xstartup [ -r $HOME/.Xresources ] && xrdb $HOME/.Xresources xsetroot -solid grey vncconfig -iconic & xterm -geometry 80x24+10+10 -ls -title "$VNCDESKTOP Desktop" & twm & logout as user and login as root now navigate to /etc/sysconfig/ and edit the vncservers file vncservers file as edited # The VNCSERVERS variable is a list of display:user pairs. # # Uncomment the lines below to start a VNC server on display :2 # as my 'myusername' (adjust this to your own). You will also # need to set a VNC password; run 'man vncpasswd' to see how # to do that. # # DO NOT RUN THIS SERVICE if your local area network is # untrusted! For a secure way of using VNC, see # <URL:http://www.uk.research.att.com/archive/vnc/sshvnc.html>. # Use "-nolisten tcp" to prevent X connections to your VNC server via TCP. # Use "-nohttpd" to prevent web-based VNC clients connecting. # Use "-localhost" to prevent remote VNC clients connecting except when # doing so through a secure tunnel. See the "-via" option in the # `man vncviewer' manual page. VNCSERVERS="1:bentledr" VNCSERVERARGS[1]="-geometry 800x600" use the services aplet to set vncserver to start at boot save settings now do restart but don't login. connect remotely as ipaddr:1 supply the password the remote desktop now appears and is completely functional except if you attempt to drag any icon on the desktop all icons dissapear and then re-appear and the users home folder apears opened on the desktop you can even drag this folder about OK but if you try and drag any icon within it again results in the previously described behavior. the Same is seen from both an fc1 machine and a windows machine.
If this is still aparent in FC5 final (hope to get it downladed and installed tomorrow) should this be re-assigned as FC5 or left as devel.
Tested with FC5. The problem is still here, so I reassigned it to FC5.
*** Bug 186665 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I have tried to reproduce this bug with FC5, vnc-4.1.1-39.fc5, and it was working for me. Please update your system and try, whether the problem still occurs. Thank you.
I can confirm that all is now OK in FC5 after doing a re-install to test. The system was running FC6 test1 so when FC6 test2 becomes available I will do another install and test again (reporting bugs if any found) Since this was filed against FC5 I suppose it can now be closed.