On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 10:51:20AM -0500, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 20:35 -0800, Patrick Mansfield wrote:
> > Building and running with anaconda-10.90.8 with a --test install, it is
> > asking for a vnc password, though I have not (and AFAICT for test can't)
> > set one.
>
> You should be able to... you might have to do what the loader does
> (which iirc is write out a file containing it) by hand
>
> > This was working fine with FC devel of about two weeks ago, with anaconda
> > anaconda-10.89.12.
> >
> > Is there a workaround, open bug, or ?
>
> Based on the output, it looks like vncpasswd has fallen back to
> requiring passwords to be of a certain length again. *sigh* File a bug
> against vnc -- I know Tim's been reworking it a bit for modular X and a
> patch may have been lost in the process.
I was trying to workaround this, and found that setting vncpasswd = ""
fixed the problem.
It looks like changes were made to check for "" rather than None, but for
test mode, we still set vncpasswd to None rather than "", so we still set
a vnc password.
That is, this patch against anconda 10.90.8 fixed the problem for me:
--- anaconda-10.90.8/anaconda 2005-11-18 11:54:46.000000000 -0800
+++ fix-test-vnc-anaconda-10.90.8/anaconda 2005-11-30 10:05:56.000000000 -0800
@@ -999,7 +999,7 @@ if display_mode == 't' and graphical_fai
if display_mode == 'g' and flags.usevnc:
# dont run vncpassword if in test mode
if flags.test:
- vncpassword = None
+ vncpassword = ""
startVNCServer(vncpassword=vncpassword,
vncconnecthost=vncconnecthost,
-- Patrick Mansfield
