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Bug Fix Advisory vnc bug fix update

Advisory: RHBA-2010:0563-1
Type: Bug Fix Advisory
Severity: N/A
Issued on: 2010-07-27
Last updated on: 2010-07-27
Affected Products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)

Details

Updated vnc packages that fix various bugs are now available.

Virtual Network Computing (VNC) is a remote display system which
allows you to view a computing 'desktop' environment not only on the
machine where it is running, but from anywhere on the Internet and
from a wide variety of machine architectures.

These updated vnc packages resolve the following issues:

* libvnc.so module to Xorg wasn't able to wake up the main Xorg process when
entered to the DPMS standby mode. Now, when libvnc.so receives keyboard or mouse
event over network, it wakes up the Xorg and turns down running screensaver.
(BZ#607566)

* the VNC server script didn't accept +option switches when specified before
[:X] display number. This issue is now resolved. (BZ#607567)

All VNC Users are advised to upgrade to these updated VNC packages, which
resolve those issues.


Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to
use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259

Updated packages

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
SRPMS:
vnc-4.1.2-14.el5_5.4.src.rpm
File outdated by:  RHBA-2011:0216		     MD5: cd4173a839136a06649a1488f47ee764
SHA-256: 839262c6a8e30e8f74e6d53cdf5ffc7c223bdd16166ef64779d655895e1fdffc
 
IA-32:
vnc-4.1.2-14.el5_5.4.i386.rpm
File outdated by:  RHBA-2011:0216		     MD5: bb38be5f975bde285e99adf74054ba5e
SHA-256: e5b7f886778d31d72ac9db3dc8e650895f2964e0331a679b8597d08e1d95bafe
vnc-server-4.1.2-14.el5_5.4.i386.rpm
File outdated by:  RHBA-2011:0216		     MD5: a8f6851e57d90f183efeefcd6c4c8ede
SHA-256: 5cc57b633bc0e53c82fb7b00a5df961397f70ad464da6b3a74270f5f55eb8937
 
IA-64:
vnc-4.1.2-14.el5_5.4.ia64.rpm
File outdated by:  RHBA-2011:0216		     MD5: f8e590d6cf29b1631e54a8e4853ca295
SHA-256: ad26a106233b83b0a5ddc139a05421de7b767f3b15d24c26b2cda739c3a4c6ce
vnc-server-4.1.2-14.el5_5.4.ia64.rpm
File outdated by:  RHBA-2011:0216		     MD5: 9397a48db1bfe4346d27af32554e546e
SHA-256: 0ec0997d86b2d6653f19d6fa65525f9592795062be57b4b74d4533926c9f723f
 
PPC:
vnc-4.1.2-14.el5_5.4.ppc.rpm
File outdated by:  RHBA-2011:0216		     MD5: 68be5c84521bba3154a5189636f7ae74
SHA-256: 15cf9b9077871f4bbf381bdb4ac860f3978d795ce05d60eb9c6218ba836d4540
vnc-server-4.1.2-14.el5_5.4.ppc.rpm
File outdated by:  RHBA-2011:0216		     MD5: a7022a832e1dee527d96de9204439370
SHA-256: 621577c09529ccd0e41cfa3cf58a93d5186803b1e284b426af2a82e80dcff3c5
 
s390x:
vnc-4.1.2-14.el5_5.4.s390x.rpm
File outdated by:  RHBA-2011:0216		     MD5: feb03e6e8c1f94c4b4102681e6e47b90
SHA-256: 114abee576a744e8de0a208d153dc5ee895a7a1c0f2d5aecbaf61a398879c82c
vnc-server-4.1.2-14.el5_5.4.s390x.rpm
File outdated by:  RHBA-2011:0216		     MD5: 77648cd621e4cef184ee67eafa53e5cb
SHA-256: 089163b38ca7895bea98fc7421655a0ead356e8df3678e13440fd74d274c0255
 
x86_64:
vnc-4.1.2-14.el5_5.4.x86_64.rpm
File outdated by:  RHBA-2011:0216		     MD5: dcb855a7ad61ad79250e137aa5d5d1cc
SHA-256: 1c546094bb3d5d5e782a683405ae607d88af436801732cd7cb64ef8031193362
vnc-server-4.1.2-14.el5_5.4.x86_64.rpm
File outdated by:  RHBA-2011:0216		     MD5: d5932f8825fe4aee6e4d60894f25b770
SHA-256: 07a0ffc71735b2b8cd3732c6ac12482479a9799fabca8580138264fa47b0d9ca
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
SRPMS:
vnc-4.1.2-14.el5_5.4.src.rpm
File outdated by:  RHBA-2011:0216		     MD5: cd4173a839136a06649a1488f47ee764
SHA-256: 839262c6a8e30e8f74e6d53cdf5ffc7c223bdd16166ef64779d655895e1fdffc
 
IA-32:
vnc-4.1.2-14.el5_5.4.i386.rpm
File outdated by:  RHBA-2011:0216		     MD5: bb38be5f975bde285e99adf74054ba5e
SHA-256: e5b7f886778d31d72ac9db3dc8e650895f2964e0331a679b8597d08e1d95bafe
vnc-server-4.1.2-14.el5_5.4.i386.rpm
File outdated by:  RHBA-2011:0216		     MD5: a8f6851e57d90f183efeefcd6c4c8ede
SHA-256: 5cc57b633bc0e53c82fb7b00a5df961397f70ad464da6b3a74270f5f55eb8937
 
x86_64:
vnc-4.1.2-14.el5_5.4.x86_64.rpm
File outdated by:  RHBA-2011:0216		     MD5: dcb855a7ad61ad79250e137aa5d5d1cc
SHA-256: 1c546094bb3d5d5e782a683405ae607d88af436801732cd7cb64ef8031193362
vnc-server-4.1.2-14.el5_5.4.x86_64.rpm
File outdated by:  RHBA-2011:0216		     MD5: d5932f8825fe4aee6e4d60894f25b770
SHA-256: 07a0ffc71735b2b8cd3732c6ac12482479a9799fabca8580138264fa47b0d9ca
 
(The unlinked packages above are only available from the Red Hat Network)

Bugs fixed (see bugzilla for more information)

607566 - vnc.so : VNC viewer blocked when dpms becomes active on the server side.
607567 - vncserver does not accept Xvnc switch


Keywords

dpms, libvnc.so, switch, vncserver

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