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Date:      Mon, 23 Oct 2006 11:49:08 -0400
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        "Scott I. Remick" <scott@sremick.net>
Cc:        gnome@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: vino password not working after 2.16 upgrade
Message-ID:  <1161618548.70946.5.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
In-Reply-To: <453CC2A1.2020603@sremick.net>
References:  <453CC2A1.2020603@sremick.net>

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On Mon, 2006-10-23 at 09:24 -0400, Scott I. Remick wrote:
> So I've had an otherwise-successful upgrade to Gnome 2.16, but I've=20
> discovered my VNC/Vino password no longer works (and I'm remote now with=20
> only ssh access... normally I tunnel VNC over ssh).
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> The VNC client still prompts me for a password, so the fact that Vino is=20
> running is still being detected. But I keep getting "authentication faile=
d".
>=20
> Here's my ~/.gconf/desktop/gnome/remote_access/%gconf.xml file:
>=20
> <?xml version=3D"1.0"?>
> <gconf>
>          <entry name=3D"vnc_password" mtime=3D"1148297146" type=3D"string=
">
>                  <stringvalue>xxxxxxxxx</stringvalue>
>          </entry>
>          <entry name=3D"authentication_methods" mtime=3D"1148297144"=20
> type=3D"list" ltyp
> e=3D"string">
>                  <li type=3D"string">
>                          <stringvalue>vnc</stringvalue>
>                  </li>
>          </entry>
>          <entry name=3D"prompt_enabled" mtime=3D"1148297143" type=3D"bool=
"=20
> value=3D"false
> ">
>          </entry>
>          <entry name=3D"enabled" mtime=3D"1148297139" type=3D"bool" value=
=3D"true">
>          </entry>
> </gconf>
>=20
>=20
> I've run the password hash through a Base64 decoder and it's still what=20
> it should be (what it was prior to upgrading to 2.16).
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> All that's in my auth.log is:
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> Oct 23 09:20:19 scott sshd[51865]: error: connect_to 127.0.0.1 port=20
> 5900: Connection refused
> Oct 23 09:20:19 scott sshd[51865]: error: connect_to localhost port=20
> 5900: failed.
>=20
> Strangely, only once do those lines appear, despite multiple failed=20
> attempts.
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> This is a FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE system, if it matters. Any ideas?

I had to re-enter my password in the Remote Desktop capplet before I
could connect to vino after the upgrade.

Joe

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