Xvnc bug?

[Carl R. Witty]

"Gordon Tyler" <gtyler "at" iafrica.com> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> I've been getting this problem for a while but intermittently so it's
> probably quite a nasty one. I have an Xvnc (3.3.2r2 with compression
> modifications) server running on a Linux machine (RedHat 5.1) and I connect
> using the Win32 VNCviewer (3.3.2r2 with compression modifications) on a
> WinNT 4 (SP3) machine. Sometimes I connect/disconnect multiple times before
> the problem occurs sometime the problem occurrs on the second connect. The
> problem is that when I try connect again, the VNC window flashes up and then
> closes immediately. I have to restart my Xvnc server before I can connect
> again.
...
> 03/09/98 12:29:47 rfbSetTranslateFunction: server bits per pixel not 8, 16
> or 32

You're not alone; I reported this bug several weeks ago, but I never
got any responses.

I used to have this problem regularly, but it hasn't reoccurred since
I upgraded to 3.3.2r2 on the server and client.  I was hoping it had
been fixed, but I guess not.

Carl Witty
cwitty "at" newtonlabs.com

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