https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=479195 Summary: Install-time VNC server crashes on connection Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.0 Version: Final Platform: x86 OS/Version: openSUSE 11.0 Status: NEW Severity: Major Priority: P5 - None Component: Installation AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: jra@baylink.com QAContact: jsrain@novell.com Found By: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009011913 Firefox/3.0.6 When attempting to use the VNC installation to install the OS remotely on a bare machine, the VNC server crashes when a VNC viewer client attempts to connect to it, after the VNC password is given and accepted. I've tried this with the current UltraVNC viewer, 1.0.5, as well as the TightVNC viewer 1.3.10; I also tried switching the Ultra viewer from ZRLE to Tight mode. The crash happens just after connection, after (or as) the first desktop screen is being painted on the viewer window -- sometimes I can see the entire screen, and then a memory-scribble stride pattern is painted across it before the disconnect ("error WriteExact"); sometimes it crashes in the middle of painting the screen. This has happened on 2 separate servers; one an ASUS P5WDG with an RTL8169 card; one a SuperMicro C2SBC-Q with whatever the stock NIC is on that. I gather another bug on this was merged into a 10.3 bug about after-install VNC problems; I would recommend against merging this bug with *anything* -- if there's another bug on this problem, BZ declines to provide it to me in a search. I'm going to install a *LOT* of 11.0 server this year; this is a P2 bug for me. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start an 11.0 install with "VNC=1" on the command line 2. Specify a static IP, net mask, no gateway, and hit ESC at DNS 3. Try to connect and observe crash 4. Blather, wince, repeat Actual Results: The VNC server crashes, leaving a red error dialog on the system console screen saying "A failure occurred during the installation" (or something within 5% of that) Expected Results: I should be able to perform a graphical install through the VNC connection -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.