[bug-notifications] [vncserver 0001577]: Xvnc with depth > 8 crashes when logging on to GNOME 2.8 or KDE 3.4

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The following issue has been CLOSED 
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http://www.opencsw.org/mantis/view.php?id=1577 
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Reported By:                gnutered
Assigned To:                maciej
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Project:                    vncserver
Issue ID:                   1577
Category:                   regular use
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   major
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     closed
Resolution:                 open
Fixed in Version:           
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Date Submitted:             2006-04-18 01:22 CEST
Last Modified:              2009-11-18 09:37 CET
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Summary:                    Xvnc with depth > 8 crashes when logging on to
GNOME 2.8 or KDE 3.4
Description: 
A segmentation fault happens under specific circumstances, using Xvnc to
log in remotely into a GNOME 2.8 session on a SPARC Solaris 9 box.

Not sure if it\'s GNOME or VNC or a combination.  Reporting as a bug
against GNOME, and report a bug against VNC server that links to this.

On the server, i run the following command:
    sudo /opt/csw/bin/Xvnc -geometry 1024x768 -depth 24 -once -query
localhost

When I use a vncviewer to connect to that, I get the login screen.  When I
choose GNOME session and login, it presents the GNOME 2.8 splashscreen and
then crashes.

If I use \"-depth 8\", it does *not* crash (\"-depth
16\" does, though).  So it\'s not just GNOME.  If I use XDMCP directly
(not through VNC), \"-depth 24\" is fine.

If I choose CDE instead of GNOME, all depths work.  So it\'s not just VNC.
 But it happens with both KDE and GNOME.  Resultion doesn\'t seem to matter
so much.

VNC and GNOME are the latest Blastwave stable release.  KDE is.

I uninstalled the SUNW gnome packages and even rebooted, but problem
persists

I tried a number of clients, namely Ubunt Dapper, Windows (?TightVNC?).

A core file is produced by the segfault, but I\'m far too rusty on that
level of Solaris hackery to make sense of it without expert guidance.

There is a chance that this isn\'t Xvnc\' fault, but that seems unlikely.
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 (0007006) maciej (manager) - 2009-11-18 09:37
 http://www.opencsw.org/mantis/view.php?id=1577#c7006 
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Closing the bug as it's no longer reproducible.