[CentOS] Re: Xvnc from tightvnc crashing

Jonathan Berry berryja at gmail.com
Sat Feb 9 04:25:33 UTC 2008


On Feb 6, 2008 5:30 PM, Jonathan Berry <berryja at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am having issues with running tightvnc-server on a CentOS 5.1 x86_64
> machine (currently up-to-date, kernel 2.6.18-53.1.6.el5).
> Occasionally, the Xvnc instance will just crash, taking with it
> everything that I was running.  When it crashes, it seems to do so
> when I try to open some GUI program.  So, for instance, I click on a
> shortcut to open a program, and poof, it crashes.  But it does not
> crash every time.  At times it is usable for a long time.
>
> I believe tightvnc is available from rpmforge.
>
> $ rpm -qa | grep tightvnc
> tightvnc-server-1.3.9-1.el5.rf
> tightvnc-1.3.9-1.el5.rf
>
> Is anyone else using tightvnc?  Is anyone having any trouble with it?
> Any ideas how to troubleshoot this?
>
> Here are the last few messages from the log file after one of these crashes:
>
> ** (nm-applet:26504): WARNING **: <WARNING>      nma_dbus_init (): nma_dbus_init
> () could not acquire its service.  dbus_bus_acquire_service() says: 'Connection
> ":1.74" is not allowed to own the service "org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerInfo" d
> ue to security policies in the configuration file'
>
> The application 'pam-panel-icon' lost its connection to the display :1.0;
> most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed
> the application.
> The application 'bt-applet' lost its connection to the display :1.0;
> most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed
> the application.
> The application 'gnome-session' lost its connection to the display :1.0;
> most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed
> the application.
> The application 'nautilus' lost its connection to the display :1.0;
> most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed
> the application.
> The application 'gnome-panel' lost its connection to the display :1.0;
> most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed
> the application.
> The application 'nm-applet' lost its connection to the display :1.0;
> most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed
> the application.
> Window manager warning: Lost connection to the display ':1.0';
> most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed
> the window manager.
> The application 'eggcups' lost its connection to the display :1.0;
> most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed
> the application.
>
> (gnome-panel:26480): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_run_dispose: assertion `
> G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
>
> (gnome-panel:26480): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_run_dispose: assertion `
> G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
> gnome-terminal: Fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server :1.0.

Hmm, does no one run TightVNC?  What about the regular VNC that comes
with CentOS?  I may change back to that and see how it runs.  Any
ideas?

Jonathan



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