Sporadic crash with VNC Viewer 4.4.3 on Mac OS X 10.5.6

Bug Hunter bughound "at" gmail.com
Tue Mar 10 17:15:02 2009


The VNC Viewer application running on the MacBook Pro crashes entirely and
needs to be restarted.

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 8:34 AM, James Weatherall <jnw "at" realvnc.com> wrote:

>  And can you clarify whether by crash you actually mean that the VNC
> Viewer process crashes, or simply that it disconnects from the VNC Server?
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> Regards,
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> Wez @ RealVNC Ltd
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> *From:* Bug Hunter [mailto:bughound "at" gmail.com]
> *Sent:* 09 March 2009 16:47
> *To:* james.weatherall "at" realvnc.com
> *Cc:* vnc-list "at" realvnc.com
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> *Subject:* Re: Sporadic crash with VNC Viewer 4.4.3 on Mac OS X 10.5.6
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> vncserver version:
> Xvnc version 4.0 - built Jan 10 2007 07:53:09
> Underlying X server release 60801000, The X.Org Foundation
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> platform:
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4 (Nahant Update 5)
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>  On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 12:39 PM, James Weatherall <jnw "at" realvnc.com>
> wrote:
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> Do you have details of the VNC Server version & platform that you are
> connecting to when you hit these problems?
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> --
> Wez @ RealVNC Ltd
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com [mailto:vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com] On
> > Behalf Of Bug Hunter
> > Sent: 09 March 2009 14:35
> > To: vnc-list "at" realvnc.com
> > Subject: Re: Sporadic crash with VNC Viewer 4.4.3 on Mac OS X 10.5.6
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> > I've found the culprit.
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> > Changing the PreferredEncoding from ZRLE to Hextile stops the crashing.
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> > (Options -> Advanced -> Expert, scroll down to PreferredEncoding)
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> > On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Bug Hunter <bughound "at" gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > Just bought a new Intel-based MacBook Pro running Mac OS X 10.5.6.
> > >
> > > I installed the latest 4.4.3 Mac OS X Univeral VNC Viewer and it is
> > very
> > > unstable, crashing randomly.
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