Bug 718975 - vino-server does not start after checking option "Allow other users to view your desktop".
Summary: vino-server does not start after checking option "Allow other users to view y...
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: vino
Version: 14
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Søren Sandmann Pedersen
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-07-05 10:51 UTC by Fujisan
Modified: 2014-06-18 09:14 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Clone Of:
: 848943 (view as bug list)
Environment:
Last Closed: 2012-08-16 15:46:02 UTC
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Description Fujisan 2011-07-05 10:51:35 UTC
Description of problem:
When I click in vino-preferences the option "Allow other users to view your desktop", it says that "[...] Others can access your computer using the address localhost". vino-server is not running. Not very usefull when away from localhost.

If I launch on a command line:
$ /usr/libexec/vino-server
05/07/2011 12:28:44 PM Autoprobing TCP port in (all) network interface
05/07/2011 12:28:44 PM Listening IPv6://[::]:5900
05/07/2011 12:28:44 PM Listening IPv4://0.0.0.0:5900
05/07/2011 12:28:44 PM Autoprobing selected port 5900
05/07/2011 12:28:44 PM Advertising authentication type: 'VNC Authentication' (2)
05/07/2011 12:28:44 PM Advertising security type: 'VNC Authentication' (2)

vino-preferences says : "[...] Others can access your computer using the address 10.0.21.200 or mypc.local"

Then I can access to that pc remotely.

But if I uncheck option "Allow other users to view your desktop", vino-server stops and if I check it again, vino-server does not start.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
vino-2.32.2-1.fc14.x86_64

How reproducible:
every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. ps axf|grep vino  --> nothing
2. run /usr/libexec/vino-server
3. ps axf|grep vino
19124 pts/2    Sl     0:00              |   |   \_ /usr/libexec/vino-server

you can access to remote pc via vnc.
4. uncheck option "Allow other users to view your desktop", vino-server is stopped.
5. Recheck that option, vnc-server does not start. Cannot access to remote server.

  
Actual results:
Cannot access to remote server just by clicking option "Allow other users to view your desktop".


Expected results:
I expect that vino-server would start after clicking that option, so I can access to my remote pc.


Additional info:

Comment 1 Jonathan Kamens 2011-07-18 20:33:14 UTC
Perhaps relevant in ~/.xsession-errors?

gnome-session[29643]: WARNING: Failed to start app: Unable to start application: Failed to execute child process "vino-server" (No such file or directory)

Comment 2 Fujisan 2011-07-19 09:50:43 UTC
nothing in that file.

Comment 3 Jonathan Kamens 2011-10-25 14:03:00 UTC
Continuing to see this in Fedora 16.
Any workaround? Any plans to fix?

Comment 4 Jonathan Kamens 2011-10-25 14:06:12 UTC
~/.config/gnome-session/saved-session/vino-server.desktop has this in it:


Exec=vino-server --sm-client-id 107cebc82657a6e82c131931020461053200000138960038

The file was recently saved, so it appears that when vino saves its state on shutdown, it's not saving a full path even though it should be.

Comment 5 Sylvain Petreolle 2012-05-16 08:46:41 UTC
(In reply to comment #4)
> ~/.config/gnome-session/saved-session/vino-server.desktop has this in it:
> 
> 
> Exec=vino-server --sm-client-id
> 107cebc82657a6e82c131931020461053200000138960038
> 
> The file was recently saved, so it appears that when vino saves its state on
> shutdown, it's not saving a full path even though it should be.

I'm getting this very same problem on Fedora 16 with all stable updates.

Comment 6 Oldrich Plchot 2012-08-07 22:20:44 UTC
(In reply to comment #5)
I am seeing the same thing in Fedora 17 with all updates. I have to start /usr/libexec/vino-server manually. Mentioned file  ~/.config/gnome-session/saved-session/vino-server.desktop does not even exist on my system and I had the vino-server running, preferences set correctly in the GUI for vino-preferences and I correctly logged out from Gnome.

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