Unable to reconnect after "Connection reset by peer"

[James "Wez" Weatherall]

> I just installed vnc on my Debian system, and was able to configure and
> start it up just fine.  I ran the viewer from my NT workstation and it was
> connected for a few hours--I was quite productive with it.  Then suddenly
it
> disconnected, and whenever I try to reconnect, after entering my password
> the vnc window pops up, I see the grey "grabbing initial screen" message
for
> just a quarter of a second, and the program quits.  Here is an excerpt
from
> my logfile:

There is a patch for this particular bug, which involves a tiny but fatal
buffer overflow.  It can be retrieved from the list archives, I expect.  I'm
not sure whether the downloadable source has been updated yet, though.

Cheers,

James "Wez" Weatherall
--
          "Xenophobes should go back to Xenophobia"
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