I have a bunch of 11.10 laptops I'm administering. I am currently trying to start a remote desktop session to an user that's logged in. Here's what worked in the past.
- ssh -XC root@111.222.111.222
- xauth list
- su remoteuser -
- xauth add_data_from_step_2
- vino-preferences (enable remote access and don't ax me nothing)
- start remmina client and do my thing
I'm stuck at step 5, when I launch vino-preferences I get glibc detected *** vino-preferences: malloc(): memory corruption. So I try enabling it with gconf-editor, same thing happens. Finally, I manage to set it with gsettings (enable access and no prompt). After I start vino with /usr/lib/vino/vino-server & I get the same glibc blah blah thing.
Running xeyes, xclock, etc. works. Tried pidgin, firefox, they work as well.
x11vnc -display :0, thus replacing step 5 solves my current problem, but I'd still like to know what's going on here. – sostacked Jul 17 '12 at 19:37