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The changelog for vino 2.32.2 says: - Bind both an IPv4 and an IPv6 socket. Old behaviour was for vino to attempt to bind the :0 VNC port (5900) by binding AF_INET/0.0.0.0/5900, if that failed try again :1 (5901), etc. The tigervnc server module runs under Xorg and since it starts first grabs :0, itself binding 0.0.0.0:5900. Therefore vino was (for me) always on :1. With the latest version, vino first attempts to bind :::5900. Since the tigervnc module doesn't support IPv6, this endpoint is unused and the bind works. Then vino goes for the IPv4 endpoint, which fails. Instead of closing the v6 socket and starting again at :1, vino treats binding half the sockets it wanted as success and continues on. (It closes the socket file descriptor, but doesn't report the failure in .xsession-errors.) So we end up with 0.0.0.0:5900 bound to Xorg, and :::5900 bound to vino. Since this particular machine is not remotely accessible over IPv6, vino cannot be accessed. (And since I have yet to figure out how to configure the Xorg module, I can't use that either rendering the desktop completely inaccessible.) Workaround: Use gconf-editor to set /desktop/gnome/remote_access/alternative_port to 5901 and enable use_alternative_port (they can't be configured via the control panel!) Fix: bind the IPv4 address first on failure of either bind roll to next server port or both.
(Found bug 703009 and bug 711212 before submitting: not sure whether they're related, looks like this is something else.)
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