I followed the following steps to start tightvncserver on Debian Wheezy. 1. Ran the following command as root: aptitude update; aptitude install tightvncserver
2. Logged into my GNOME desktop as non root user. 3. Opened mrxvt. Executed the following command in bash prompt: tightvncserver I got this output. susam@nifty:~$ vncserver -geometry 1024x800 -depth 32 Couldn't start Xtightvnc; trying default font path. Please set correct fontPath in the vncserver script. Couldn't start Xtightvnc process. 19/03/11 21:13:35 Xvnc version TightVNC-1.3.9 19/03/11 21:13:35 Copyright (C) 2000-2007 TightVNC Group 19/03/11 21:13:35 Copyright (C) 1999 AT&T Laboratories Cambridge 19/03/11 21:13:35 All Rights Reserved. 19/03/11 21:13:35 See http://www.tightvnc.com/ for information on TightVNC 19/03/11 21:13:35 Desktop name 'X' (nifty:1) 19/03/11 21:13:35 Protocol versions supported: 3.3, 3.7, 3.8, 3.7t, 3.8t 19/03/11 21:13:35 Listening for VNC connections on TCP port 5901 Fatal server error: Couldn't add screen 19/03/11 21:13:36 Xvnc version TightVNC-1.3.9 19/03/11 21:13:36 Copyright (C) 2000-2007 TightVNC Group 19/03/11 21:13:36 Copyright (C) 1999 AT&T Laboratories Cambridge 19/03/11 21:13:36 All Rights Reserved. 19/03/11 21:13:36 See http://www.tightvnc.com/ for information on TightVNC 19/03/11 21:13:36 Desktop name 'X' (nifty:1) 19/03/11 21:13:36 Protocol versions supported: 3.3, 3.7, 3.8, 3.7t, 3.8t 19/03/11 21:13:36 Listening for VNC connections on TCP port 5901 Fatal server error: Couldn't add screen susam@nifty:~$ Could you please help me n troubleshooting this?
