Bug 12801

Summary: X11 vnc module fail: undefined symbol key_is_down
Product: Mageia Reporter: Vincent D <vincent.dema+mageia>
Component: RPM PackagesAssignee: Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud>
Status: RESOLVED OLD QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: Normal CC: mageia
Version: 4Keywords: Junior_job, PATCH
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Source RPM: x11-server-1.14.5-2.mga4.src.rpm CVE:
Status comment:

Description Vincent D 2014-02-17 14:24:40 CET
Description of problem:
The X11 module named vnc can not be loaded. In /var/log/Xorg.0.log we can find the following lines:

[  6564.829] (II) LoadModule: "vnc"
[  6564.829] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/libvnc.so
[  6564.834] (EE) Failed to load /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/libvnc.so: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/libvnc.so: undefined symbol: key_is_down
[  6564.834] (II) UnloadModule: "vnc"
[  6564.834] (II) Unloading vnc
[  6564.834] (EE) Failed to load module "vnc" (loader failed, 7)


A quick search leads to the same behavior from red hat:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1016152

It seems that the xorg-x11-server package can be rebuilt to export the key_is_down symbol. Previously a similar problem occured with GetMaster symbol:
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5045.

When possible I will try to rebuild from the source package but I am not really confident.

Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:
Comment 1 Vincent D 2014-02-18 18:21:19 CET
Th rebuild of tigervnc had not helped. As suggested for fedora, a patch and a rebuild of xorg-x11-server is needed.
David Walser 2014-02-19 16:58:18 CET

Assignee: bugsquad => thierry.vignaud
Source RPM: tigervnc-1.3.0-2.mga4.src.rpm => tigervnc-1.3.0-2.mga4.src.rpm, x11-server-1.14.5-2.mga4.src.rpm

Thierry Vignaud 2014-02-19 22:44:25 CET

Keywords: (none) => Junior_job, PATCH
Source RPM: tigervnc-1.3.0-2.mga4.src.rpm, x11-server-1.14.5-2.mga4.src.rpm => x11-server-1.14.5-2.mga4.src.rpm

Comment 2 Vladimir Gurevich 2014-05-12 06:37:09 CEST
x11vnc can be used as a functional replacement in many cases, but it would be nice if this bug is fixed.

CC: (none) => mageia

Comment 3 Samuel Verschelde 2015-09-21 13:21:52 CEST
Mageia 4 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2015-09-19. It is is no longer 
maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug 
fix updates.

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fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' to a later 
Mageia version.

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Comment 4 Marja Van Waes 2015-10-27 06:58:47 CET
As announced over a month ago, Mageia 4 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2015-09-19. It is is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates.

This issue may have been fixed in a later Mageia release, so, if you still see it and didn't already do so: please upgrade to Mageia 5 (or, if you read this much later than this is written: make sure you run a currently maintained Mageia version)

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Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => OLD