VNC 4.0 on Soalris 8 with inetd

[Jeff Hall]

Alasdair:

I just checked again against my Solaris 9 (9/04 but with patches) and the
window disappears after I login????  This was the version I ran my tests
against so I'm surprised it works for you.

I tracked the error down (using the trace facility of xdm along with the
X6.3.1 source for xdm) to the point in xdm where it is writing
authorization records - at which point I decided to try a newer version of
X. Having not exactly identified the error I don't know where the fault
lies.

My solution was to download and build the entire XFree 4.3.0 distribution
and then start its version of xdm rather than the /usr/openwin/bin
version. I did not rebuild vnc.

Jeff Hall

On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, Alasdair Ferro wrote:

> Jeff,
>
> I've been running VNC on Solaris 9 (9/04 with no patches) for a while
> now with no problem. However my Solaris 8 (2/04, but with the latest
> recommended patches) is showing this problem. Can you give us some more
> detail as to how you found the problem (so I can verify it's the same
> one), and the fix (feel free to mail me off list, if it's long!)
>
> BTW is it Sun or VNC's xdm implementation that's not behaving?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Alasdair
>
> >The version of xdm that ships with Solaris 8 and 9 is incompatible with
> >VNC 4. This incompatibility is the reason the VNC window disappears
> >after connecting and logging in. I was able to get VNC 4.1.1 to work
> >by downloading the XFree 4.3.0 source, building it and using the xdm
> >that comes with it.
> >
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