Very long logfiles from VNC

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Hi all,

With our Interactive Desktop app, one user’s session generated a 20GB OOD logfile. The log was repeating the message “Type the address or name of the server to connect to:” endlessly until the user’s home directory quota was consumed and their job crashed. See the snippet below:

Setting VNC password...
Generating connection YAML file...
Xlib:  extension "DPMS" missing on display ":2.0".
Xlib:  extension "DPMS" missing on display ":2.0".
Xlib:  extension "DPMS" missing on display ":2.0".
Xlib:  extension "DPMS" missing on display ":2.0".
Type the address or name of the server to connect to: Type the address or name of the server to connect to: Type the address or name of the server to connect to: Type the address or name of the server to connect to: [...]

We haven’t been able to reproduce this. Has anyone else seen this issue, and if so, did you find a solution?

Best,

Ron Rahaman
Georgia Institute of Technology

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I would look at this users’ ~/.bashrc or similar to try to replicate. I’m also interested in how we didn’t fail or stop execution ourselves.