On Sun, 29 Aug 2010, Ambarish Sridharanarayanan wrote: > I'm trying to install Fedora 13 over VNC [1], with TigerVNC on Windows as > the VNC client. In the middle, my connection dropped; when reconnecting, > TigerVNC tells me "The server is already in use". Looking at the sources, > it looks like the XVnc thinks there's an active connection, and it looks > like was passed on a -nevershared option. And IdleTimeout=0 is also passed > in. Any way to reconnect to the running Anaconda to complete the > installation? I'd like to not have to run through Anaconda again. > > [1] > http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/13/html/Installation_Guide/sn-remoteaccess-installation.html
Fixed the problem by * downloading debug symbols for tigervnc * extracting symbol files (rpm2cpio) * attaching gdb to the running Xvnc process and with the help of the symbol file, changing idleTimeOut to 1 sec, so that the stale connection would be recycled I'm filing a bug against Anaconda. I can understand IdleTimeout=0, but not -nevershared -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
