Bug#400108: vino: password check broken?

[Holger Leskien]

Package: vino
Version: 2.16.0-2
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

Hi,

at some point in the last weeks vino stopped working on my computer.
First I thought it might be a wrong password issue, but now I checked
more thoroughly. This is what the vino-server prints out:

23/11/2006 22:13:41 Autoprobing TCP port
23/11/2006 22:13:41 Autoprobing selected port 5900
23/11/2006 22:13:41 Advertising security type: 'TLS' (18)
23/11/2006 22:13:41 Advertising authentication type: 'VNC Authentication' (2)
23/11/2006 22:13:41 Advertising security type: 'VNC Authentication' (2)
23/11/2006 22:13:47 Got connection from client xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
23/11/2006 22:13:47 other clients:
23/11/2006 22:13:47 Client Protocol Version 3.7
23/11/2006 22:13:47 Advertising security type 18
23/11/2006 22:13:47 Advertising security type 2
23/11/2006 22:13:47 Client returned security type 2

** (vino-server:32624): WARNING **: Failed to base64 unencode VNC password

23/11/2006 22:13:52 rfbAuthPasswordChecked: password check failed
23/11/2006 22:13:52 Client xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx gone
23/11/2006 22:13:52 Statistics:
23/11/2006 22:13:52 framebuffer updates 0, rectangles 0, bytes 0

Client is "VNC Viewer Free Edition" 4.1.1 and didn't change. Is there a
dependency to a package missing which I might have deleted? Or is it
about this one?

https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/edgy/+source/vino/+bug/65795

Greetings,

Holger


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-2-k7
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages vino depends on:
ii gconf2 2.16.0-2 GNOME configuration database syste
ii libavahi-client3 0.6.15-1 Avahi client library
ii libavahi-common3 0.6.15-1 Avahi common library
ii libavahi-glib1 0.6.15-1 Avahi glib integration library
ii libbonobo2-0 2.14.0-3 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgconf2-4 2.16.0-2 GNOME configuration database syste
ii libgcrypt11 1.2.3-2 LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii libglade2-0 1:2.6.0-2 library to load .glade files at ru
ii libglib2.0-0 2.12.4-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgnome2-0 2.16.0-2 The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii libgnomeui-0 2.14.1-2 The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii libgnutls13 1.4.4-2 the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.8.20-3 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libjpeg62 6b-13 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii liborbit2 1:2.14.3-0.1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii libpango1.0-0 1.14.7-1 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-3 X11 client-side library
ii libxdamage1 1:1.0.3-2 X11 damaged region extension libra
ii libxext6 1:1.0.1-2 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxfixes3 1:4.0.1-4 X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio
ii libxtst6 1:1.0.1-5 X11 Testing -- Resource extension
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-13 compression library - runtime

vino recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information

[Loïc Minier]

tags 400108 + unreproducible
severity 400108 important
stop

Hi,

Post by Holger Leskien
at some point in the last weeks vino stopped working on my computer.
First I thought it might be a wrong password issue, but now I checked

I have no idea what could have broken vino for you, but it works here.
With passwordless and password authentication.

I'm using xvnc4viewer and connecting to localhost. Could you try
creating a fresh new user on your host, setuping vino to accept
password or passwordless connections (with confirmation) and try to
connect to 127.0.0.1?

Does password/passwordless help? Does connecting to 127.0.0.1 help?
Does xvnc4viewer help?

Bye,

[Holger Leskien]

Hi,

Post by Loïc Minier

Post by Holger Leskien
at some point in the last weeks vino stopped working on my computer.
First I thought it might be a wrong password issue, but now I checked

I have no idea what could have broken vino for you, but it works here.
With passwordless and password authentication.

I should have mentioned that I use the Windows client.

Post by Loïc Minier
I'm using xvnc4viewer and connecting to localhost. Could you try
creating a fresh new user on your host, setuping vino to accept
password or passwordless connections (with confirmation) and try to
connect to 127.0.0.1?
Does password/passwordless help? Does connecting to 127.0.0.1 help?
Does xvnc4viewer help?

Passwordless works of course. Password connections work with the new
user account locally and remote, but only until the vino-server is
restarted. At this point something gets damaged.

Greetings,

Holger

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