Most interesting. If I set the main and view-only passwords to the same value as you suggest, the server starts up and I am able to connect.
As soon as I disconnect the client, the server again crashes with a backtrace: kjotte@donatello:~$ cat .vnc/donatello.home.nivex.net\:1.log Xvnc TigerVNC 1.9.0 - built Dec 1 2018 21:51:29 Copyright (C) 1999-2018 TigerVNC Team and many others (see README.rst) See http://www.tigervnc.org for information on TigerVNC. Underlying X server release 12003000, The X.Org Foundation Mon Jul 22 13:36:17 2019 vncext: VNC extension running! vncext: Listening for VNC connections on local interface(s), port 5901 vncext: created VNC server for screen 0 Openbox-Message: Unable to find a valid menu file "/var/lib/openbox/debian-menu.xml" Mon Jul 22 13:36:21 2019 Connections: accepted: 127.0.0.1::56910 SConnection: Client needs protocol version 3.8 SConnection: Client requests security type VncAuth(2) VNCSConnST: Server default pixel format depth 16 (16bpp) little-endian rgb565 VNCSConnST: Client pixel format depth 16 (16bpp) little-endian rgb565 terminate called after throwing an instance of 'rdr::EndOfStream' terminate called recursively (EE) (EE) Backtrace: (EE) 0: /usr/bin/Xtigervnc (OsLookupColor+0x1a8) [0xaaaac575c9d0] (EE) unw_get_proc_info failed: no unwind info found [-10] (EE) (EE) Fatal server error: (EE) Caught signal 6 (Aborted). Server aborting (EE) XIO: fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":1" after 4245 requests (4245 known processed) with 0 events remaining. syswrite() on closed filehandle WH at /usr/bin/vncserver line 912. Additionally, I discovered that if you provide the wrong password from the client, the server will crash with a nearly identical traceback, the only change being where terminate is called: terminate called after throwing an instance of 'rfb::AuthFailureException' So it appears that any exception thrown will cause the server to crash. On 7/22/19 5:41 AM, Bernhard Übelacker wrote: > Am 22.07.19 um 03:28 schrieb Kevin Otte: >> That is correct. > > Strange, because in my VM I received just the > Backtrace when using no view-only password. > One thing to note, I used the same password for > regular and view-only ... >