vino password not working after 2.16 upgrade

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 09:45 -0500, Scott I. Remick wrote:
> Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> >
> > I had to re-enter my password in the Remote Desktop capplet before I
> > could connect to vino after the upgrade.
> 
> Argh... did a portupgrade last night which touched some gnome bits, and 
> now the problem resurfaces. This never happened before in past gnome 
> versions. If there was a way to fix this remotely I could live with it, 
> but so far nothing I've tried works.
> 
> I came across these two threads but they don't help:
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=266981
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=1592817
> 
> I've tried using the following 2 commands to stop and restart vino:
> Code:
> 
> gconftool-2 -s -t bool /desktop/gnome/remote_access/enabled false 
> gconftool-2 -s -t bool /desktop/gnome/remote_access/enabled true
> 
> I've also tried running those after changing the base64 password hash in 
> the xml file to something else. I've also tried -HUP on vino-server. 

You'll probably have to truss or ktrace the vino-server process to see
if it gives you any clues.  gdb debugging would probably be more useful,
though.  Note: you may have to re-login to GNOME for it to work again.

Joe

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