vnc session "blank" if server display is asleep

[jimreesma]

Binary package hint: vino

Under Power Management Preferences, I have it set to put the display to sleep after a period of time. The screensaver is disabled.

If the display is asleep at the time I start a vnc session to it from another machine, the client display shows as blank (white). If I then abort the client and repeat, the second attempt works fine.

If, on the first attempt, I make sure the mouse never enters the (blank) client window, then the second attempt brings up a blank window also. Moving the mouse into the window - even for an instant - is all it takes for the next vnc session to work fine.

Further attempts after the first successful session work fine. The "bad" behavior starts again if the display timeout period elapses between attempts.

The client used in this test was OS/X 10.6.2, using the built-in screen-sharing client.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Feb 12 10:42:01 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/vino/vino-server
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: vino 2.28.1-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/zsh
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-19.56-generic
SourcePackage: vino
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-19-generic x86_64