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Remote login does not work after upgrade to Jaunty

Asked by Andreas Blochberger

I've setup vncserver to start using xinetd. xdmcp is enabled in /etc/gdm/gdm.conf
This setup worked without any problem in 8.10, but since the upgrade to Jaunty, remote login doesn't work anymore, there is only a grey screen.
Remote desktop in gnome is working though.

Where can i find some more information about what is going wrong, or even better, what is going wrong?

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Andreas Blochberger (andreas-blochberger) said : 		#1

It seems to be an IPv6 issue somehow.

In my xinetd configuration i had the following server_args for Xvnc:
-query localhost

After changing this to
-query 127.0.0.1

it worked again. I don't understand it, but i'm happy so far ;-)

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SeetheZA (sperryn) said : 		#2

Thanks Andreas, this fix worked for me too on 9.04 (64 bit). Was tearing my hair out!

Answer cross-posted to http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=7745190#post7745190