Debugging WinNT vs. Redhat 6.2 crash

Jonathan Morton chromi "at" cyberspace.org
Fri, 21 Apr 2000 21:23:39 +0000


>Hello:
>
>My current config:
>
>VNC Server 1: Redhat 5.0, vnc-3.3.2 r3
>VNC Server 2: Redhat 6.2, vnc-3.3.3 r1
>VNC Viewer 1: Windows NT 3.3.3 r2
>VNC Viewer 2: Redhat 5.0, vnc-3.3.2 r3
>
>Server 2 -> Viewer 1: Rock Solid! Love it!!
>
>Server 1 -> Viewer 1: Window crashes every few minutes, seems to be
>related to the amount of network traffic or updates being sent. No error
>messages. No complaints. The display just freezes
>
>Server 1 -> Viewer 2: The viewer closes and dumps this message:
>
>vncviewer: rect too large: 3584x256 at (27138, 44544)
>
>I tried using the logging options under vncviewer (Windows NT version) but
>nothing looked suspect.
>
>Are there some additional debugging techniques I can employ to narrow this
>down to a cause? It is a repeatable problem, and my guess is that Xvnc is
>the guilty party. I'd like to help nail this bug.

Try upgrading the RedHat 5.0 system to the latest version of VNC. 
Also, RedHat 5.0 is known to have quite a number of problems - try 
upgrading that too, but not until you've upgraded VNC.
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