Bug 433133 - vncserver fails to work when $HOME includes space characters.
Summary: vncserver fails to work when $HOME includes space characters.
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: vnc
Version: 8
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Adam Tkac
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-02-16 17:53 UTC by Anthony Stuckey
Modified: 2013-04-30 23:38 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Last Closed: 2009-01-09 07:39:40 UTC
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Description Anthony Stuckey 2008-02-16 17:53:16 UTC
From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080201 Firefox/2.0.0.12

Description of problem:
-bash-3.2$ /usr/bin/vncserver
xauth:  timeout in locking authority file /Network/Servers/mark.bme.utexas.edu/Volumes/Mark
sh: /Network/Servers/mark.bme.utexas.edu/Volumes/Mark: Permission denied

New 'miles.bme.utexas.edu:1 (astuckey)' desktop is miles.bme.utexas.edu:1

Starting applications specified in /Network/Servers/mark.bme.utexas.edu/Volumes/Mark Data/Users/astuckey/.vnc/xstartup
Log file is /Network/Servers/mark.bme.utexas.edu/Volumes/Mark Data/Users/astuckey/.vnc/miles.bme.utexas.edu:1.log

-bash-3.2$ df -k /Network/Servers/mark.bme.utexas.edu/Volumes/Mark\ Data/Users
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
mark.bme.utexas.edu:/Volumes/Mark Data/Users
                     1464886912 1109081888 355805024  76% /Network/Servers/mark.bme.utexas.edu/Volumes/Mark Data/Users
-bash-3.2$ ps auwwx | grep astuckey
root     16475  0.1  1.0  17172 11364 ?        Ss   11:40   0:00 sshd: astuckey [priv]
astuckey 16481  0.0  0.9  17172  9852 ?        S    11:40   0:00 sshd: astuckey@pts/3
astuckey 16482  0.0  0.1   4872  1412 pts/3    Ss   11:40   0:00 -bash
astuckey 16522  3.0  0.0   4696   868 pts/3    R+   11:51   0:00 ps auwwx
astuckey 16523  0.0  0.0   4044   672 pts/3    S+   11:51   0:00 grep astuckey
-bash-3.2$

Having reviewed the vncserver source, the problem appears to be that $HOME is used unquoted in several places.  Given the methods for which it is used, it appears that multiple different forms of quoting would be required to ensure proper behavior.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
vnc-4.1.2-23.fc8

How reproducible:
Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a user where the home directory path includes spaces.
2. Attempt to start vncserver.
3. Boom

Actual Results:
No VNC session was started.

Expected Results:
A VNC session should be accessible to the user.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Anthony Stuckey 2008-02-16 17:55:01 UTC
See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=426871

Comment 2 Adam Tkac 2008-04-23 15:12:21 UTC
Would it be possible test proposed update, please? You can download your arch
from http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=578538. Thanks

Comment 3 Bug Zapper 2008-11-26 09:50:03 UTC
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Comment 4 Bug Zapper 2009-01-09 07:39:40 UTC
Fedora 8 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2009-01-07. Fedora 8 is 
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