Re: Xvnc crashing

[Heinrich Rebehn <rebehn@ant.uni-bremen.de>]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 04:55:13PM +0100, Heinrich Rebehn wrote:
>
> > are there known Problems with the VNC server?
> >
> > Trying to start
> >
> > $ Xvnc :9
> >
> > yields "Segmentation fault" in the xterm and
> >
> > Dec 12 16:41:55 bremerhaven kernel: [ 2702.397481] Xvnc[7770]: segfault 
> > at 00000000ab3827e8 rip 00002aaaab1cf54b rsp 00007fffffbc99c0 error 4
> >
> > on syslog.
> >
> > My machine runs pure "deb http://amd64.debian.net/debian-amd64/ stable 
> > main" and vanilla kernel 2.6.14.3 SMP
> > ii  vncserver       3.3.7-7         Virtual network computing server 
> > software
> >
> > Any thoughts?
>
>
> Well last time I remember reading anything about vnc on amd64, the vnc
> server was known to be broken, while the client worked fine.  I have no
> idea if this is still the case or not.  By the looks of it, perhaps the
> vnc server is still broken on amd64.
>
> A search of the mailing list archive may shed some light on things.
Of course i did search before asking :-) But the posts i found where 
over a year old, so i doubted they were still relevant.
http://lists.debian.org/debian-amd64/2004/11/msg00064.html
Seems they still are.
As proposed, i installed the fedora rpm via alien. Works fine.

--Heinrich