I have a similar setup as described in the original post, but simpler one: VNC over 1 Gb LAN, no SSH, vnc4server starts-up via xinetd. The visible symptoms are exactly the same as Jordan put it, nothing to add here, and it all started after 7.1 to 8.04 upgrade. The problem affected both upgraded machines: one is a very old 800 MHz box with 768 MB RAM, the other one is 2.4 GHz P4/1GB RAM. Upgrading (today) the latter to 8.04.1 didn't help. .xsession-errors is attached, in case it's of any help.
Serguei ** Attachment added: ".xsession-errors" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/15972313/.xsession-errors -- Error starting gnome-settings-daemon while logged in via vnc https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/239342 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
