Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 433133
vncserver fails to work when $HOME includes space characters.
Last modified: 2013-04-30 19:38:44 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080201 Firefox/2.0.0.12 Description of problem: -bash-3.2$ /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:
See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=426871
Would it be possible test proposed update, please? You can download your arch from http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=578538. Thanks
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