First off, if this is the wrong place I do apologize.
I am having off an on issues with VNC connections. It did work for a few weeks and then a couple of weeks ago after an update (I wish I could remember which one, but for the life of me I can not, also not sure if it is an update’s fault or not, but it started the next day after I ran the update just prior to going to bed…) If I run vncviewer from the command line I get the following:
~> vncviewer 192.168.1.5:5901
TigerVNC Viewer 64-bit v1.4.1
Built on: ??-??-?? ??:??
Copyright (C) 1999-2014 TigerVNC Team and many others (see README.txt)
See http://www.tigervnc.org for information on TigerVNC.Thu Mar 24 03:08:38 2016
CConn: connected to host 192.168.1.5 port 5901
CConnection: Server supports RFB protocol version 3.8
CConnection: Using RFB protocol version 3.8
CConnection: Choosing security type None(1)
X11PixelBuffer: Using default colormap and visual, TrueColor, depth 24.
CConn: Using pixel format depth 24 (32bpp) little-endian rgb888
CConn: Using Tight encodingThu Mar 24 03:08:39 2016
CConn: Enabling continuous updates
CConn: End of stream
I will get a VNC window to show briefly, it does show the green default opensuse 13.2 background image, but closes within 1 second and does not display the login information or any other text for that matter, just the green image, and in less than one second then the window closes. Any idea what I need to look into?
most times when I run the command it will end with an error stating “Connection reset by peer (104)”. Once again the vnc window will show for one second then it will close and I get the error. This will happen if the firewall is enabled or disabled. below I ran the command with the local loopback address instead with the same result (vnc window with my machine’s background, then less then a second later, with no login info, will close)
:~> vncviewer 127.0.0.1:5901
TigerVNC Viewer 64-bit v1.4.1
Built on: ??-??-?? ??:??
Copyright (C) 1999-2014 TigerVNC Team and many others (see README.txt)
See http://www.tigervnc.org for information on TigerVNC.Thu Mar 24 03:19:40 2016
CConn: connected to host 127.0.0.1 port 5901
CConnection: Server supports RFB protocol version 3.8
CConnection: Using RFB protocol version 3.8
CConnection: Choosing security type None(1)
X11PixelBuffer: Using default colormap and visual, TrueColor, depth 24.
CConn: Using pixel format depth 24 (32bpp) little-endian rgb888
CConn: Using Tight encoding
CConn: Enabling continuous updates
Thu Mar 24 03:19:41 2016
CConn: read: Connection reset by peer (104)