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and subject line Bug#423010: vncserver not working at all
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Package: vncserver
Version: 3.3.7-14
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
When vncserver is invoked, it says it starts a new session on
host:number but in fact nothing is listening.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ vncserver -geometry 1024x768
New 'X' desktop is belle:1
Starting applications specified in /etc/X11/Xsession
Log file is /home/folkert/.vnc/belle:1.log
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ netstat -na | grep 590
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ps -deaf | grep -e vnc -e X
folkert 26404 16078 0 14:09 pts/8 00:00:00 grep -e vnc -e X
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
so it seems it doesn't work. Maybe it needs extra packages which are not
included in the dependencies?
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages vncserver depends on:
ii dpkg 1.13.25 package maintenance system for Deb
ii libc6 2.5-5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgcc1 1:4.1.2-6 GCC support library
ii libice6 1:1.0.3-2 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libsm6 1:1.0.2-2 X11 Session Management library
ii libstdc++6 4.1.2-6 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-7 X11 client-side library
ii libxext6 1:1.0.1-2 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii perl 5.8.8-7 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii vnc-common 3.3.7-14 Virtual network computing server s
ii x11-common 1:7.1.0-18 X Window System (X.Org) infrastruc
ii xbase-clients 1:7.1.ds1-2 miscellaneous X clients
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-13 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages vncserver recommends:
pn xfonts-base <none> (no description available)
-- no debconf information
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Hi Folkert
On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 11:03:23PM +0200, Folkert van Heusden wrote:
> > Hi
> > You have some major permission problem.
>
> I did not see any E[permission denied] in the strace output?
>
> > When vnc tries to connect to the local port and open that, you
> > get connection refused...
> > port 6001 ip 192.168.64.100
>
> yes that is because nothing is listening on that port
Now I do not really understand. Vnc open that port to listen to it.
> > You do not happen to have some security function activated
> > anywhere?
>
> none
> default debian
Ok.
> > How did you get the strace output?
>
> strace -f vncserver
> and
> strace -f vnc4server
Ok.
> > And have you tried to run with only Xvnc :5 instead of vncserver?
> > So my conclusion is that this is not a problem in vnc, but
> > rather the host system of yours. Do you have SE-linux activated?
>
> no se-linux
Ok.
> found the problem: vnc[4]server incorrectly _recomends_ the installation
> of the xfonts-base package while it is actually required (or at least A
> font package?) to be able to run
Aha that issue again! I think you are about the 20:th person reporting
that. No it is actually correct.
The definitions of depends, recommends and suggests are as follows:
* Depends: A strict dependency
* Recommends: Should be treated as a dependency unless you reconfigure
the package from default configuration.
* Suggests: Just a suggestion. That package is an enhancement to the
functionality.
And yes you can actually live without the fonts package if you have a font
server somewhere in the network and configure vnc to use that font server.
This is the reason for the recommends instead of depends.
I'll close this bug then.
Regards,
// Ola
>
> Folkert van Heusden
>
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