Occasional connection losses
Author: L-U-T-iCreated Aug 27, 2026Updated Aug 27, 2026
I am noticing occasional connection losses recently (for a couple of months or so already; not before 1.16 for sure). The remote screen just freezes, and never comes back. Restarting the connection works well (I use shared connections on server side). I am not 100% sure, but it seems it happens during a high CPU load on server (when building some application for instance).
Steps to reproduce the behavior:
- Connect to the most recent TigerVNC (git snapshot master branch) X11 vnc server (linux)
- Have the remote connection opened for some time (can be days sometimes)
- You shall suddenly find the remote screen frozen. Just waiting doesn't resolve it, you have to close the connection (client) and start a new connection (you find everything on the remote side went through in between, and is sunning smoothly all the time...); server restart is not needed
Expected behavior: Connection to remote TigerVNC server not to break (or, at least to recover)
Client:
- OS: Rocky Linux 9.8 (RHEL-9)
- VNC client: TigerVNC
- VNC client version: always the latest git snapshot - currently 1.16.80-0.5.git20260821.ff59f40
- Client downloaded from: custom build, RPM spec file based on RHEL / Fedora and TigerVNC provided one
Server:
- OS: Rocky Linux 9.8 (RHEL-9)
- VNC server:TigerVNC
- VNC server version: always the latest git snapshot - currently 1.16.80-0.5.git20260821.ff59f40
- Server downloaded from: custom build, RPM spec file based on RHEL / Fedora and TigerVNC provided one
- Server was started using: /usr/lib/systemd/system/[email protected] (ExecStart=-/usr/bin/Xvnc -inetd -query localhost -geometry 1024x768 -depth 24 -once -SecurityTypes=None)
Source: TigerVNC/tigervnc