[Pkg-tigervnc-devel] Bug#851842: Bug#851842: Bug#851842: tigervnc-xorg-extension - libvnc.so fails to load with undefined symbol: gnutls_bye

[Ola Lundqvist]

Hi

Thank you. Building a new version to see if this solves the problem for me too.

// Ola

On 30 January 2017 at 03:45, Martin Dorey <martindorey at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Jan 2017 22:10:29 +0100 Ola Lundqvist <opal at debian.org> wrote:
>> I have now been able to reproduce the problem. It is not solved by
>> merely adding more dependencies. I have to look further to find the
>> cause of the problem.
>
> Hey Ola,
>
> I think I can help.  First, though, I'm delighted to see that your ITP for
> tigervnc went through for Stretch.  But is that still a default -depth of 32
> I see - how are the poor users going to work out that they need to try
> -depth 24, per the warning in man xtigervnc, to get their, eg Java, text
> rendered properly?  Anyway, I think the problem here has the same cause as
> the similar one described by:
>
> https://github.com/TigerVNC/tigervnc/issues/294: unable to load libvnc.so
> after installing 1.5.x or 1.6.0
>
> I had another great experience with tigervnc-standalone-server this weekend,
> which lets me connect to Gnome 3 over a metro area as if I were in the
> office, in contrast to vino, where I have to tolerate several megabits per
> second of background traffic when idle, making interactivity unusably slow.
> Thus I wanted to replace vino with tigervnc-xorg-extension on the :0 of my
> just-upgraded-to-Jessie server.  I faced:
>
> [238863.164] (EE) Failed to load /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libvnc.so:
> /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libvnc.so: undefined symbol:
> gnutls_transport_set_ptr2
>
> ... which looks exactly like part of upstream's problem.  On a Stretch
> system, with Debian's (yay!) native packaging, I see the gnutls_bye symptom
> instead.  If I rebuild your Sid packaging, from apt-get source tigervnc,
> with:
>
> mad at shuttle:~/tigervnc-1.7.0+dfsg$ dpkg-buildpackage -nc -uc -us
>
> ... then apply upstream's patch, in my so very crude fashion, using what I
> think, having looked it up, is the shiniest flavor of Ubuntu that upstream
> supports:
>
> mad at shuttle:~/tigervnc-1.7.0+dfsg$ (cd unix/xserver && patch -p1 <
> ../../contrib/packages/deb/ubuntu-xenial/debian/xorg-source-patches/debian_libtool.patch)
> checking file ltmain.sh
> Hunk #1 succeeded at 7893 (offset 3 lines).
> checking file ltmain.sh
> Hunk #1 succeeded at 7571 (offset 3 lines).
> checking file m4/libtool.m4
> Hunk #1 succeeded at 4947 (offset 11 lines).
> Hunk #2 succeeded at 5009 (offset 14 lines).
> Hunk #3 succeeded at 5784 (offset 17 lines).
> mad at shuttle:~/tigervnc-1.7.0+dfsg$
>
> As you see, I get a reasonably clean application, but libvnc.so didn't
> rebuild when I repeated the dpkg-buildpackage command.  Oh, for the simple
> days, when dependencies were complete and "make" was all you needed!  Just
> removing the .so got me a build failure, causing more sadly grey-bearded
> head-shaking, but removing the .la and .lai files too:
>
> mad at shuttle:~/tigervnc-1.7.0+dfsg$ find . -name libvnc.* | xargs rm
> mad at shuttle:~/tigervnc-1.7.0+dfsg$
>
> ... then repeating the dpkg-buildpackage command got me a
> ./debian/tigervnc-xorg-extension/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libvnc.so
> that, when used to replace
> /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libvnc.so, effaces the (EE) error from
> wherever ls -l /proc/$(pidof Xorg)/fd told me that the squirrels had buried
> Xorg.0.log.  xdpyinfo now happily reports:
>
> mad at shuttle:~$ xdpyinfo | grep VNC
>     VNC-EXTENSION
> mad at shuttle:~$
>
> Sorry to make such a meal of such a trivial nugget, but I want to convey how
> little I understand.  Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm off to try to similarly
> brutalize the old Jessie packaging of tigervnc 1.6.0, if I still have it
> lying around, to see if I can get back in to :0 on the server that I
> actually care about...
>
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