Bug#776746: gnome-session: GNOME crashes during a remote desktop access

[Ola Lundqvist]

Hi

Vnc4 will most likely not be fixed. It is not maintained by upstream.
Most likely this will not be fixed by Tightvnc either, even though it is
maintained at least somewhat better.
Help is much appreciated.

// Ola

On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 10:15 PM, Simon McVittie <smcv at debian.org> wrote:

> severity 776746 normal
> clone 776746 -2 -3 -4
> retitle 776746 gnome-session: "Oh no! Something has gone wrong" when used
> under Xvnc
> reassign -2 tightvncserver 1.3.9-6.5
> retitle -2 tightvncserver: no support for Composite extension as required
> by GNOME 3, Compiz, etc.
> reassign -3 vnc4server 4.1.1+X4.3.0-37.4
> retitle -3 vnc4server: no support for Composite extension as required by
> GNOME 3, Compiz, etc.
> severity -4 wishlist
> retitle -4 gnome-session: please give clearer GUI message for missing
> Xserver features
> block 776746 by -2 -3 650394
> affects 776746 + xrdp
>
> On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 at 19:25:54 +0000, Simon McVittie wrote:
> > This is all very unfortunate, but I don't see any way it can change
> > for Debian 8, and I don't think it should be considered a
> release-critical
> > bug in GNOME.
>
> Niels in the release team doesn't think so either, so I'm downgrading
> this, and cloning similarly non-RC bugs to the VNC implementations
> as he suggested.
>
> Regards,
>     S
>



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