vino password not working after 2.16 upgrade

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

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