I tried to use tightvnc back in August and had some help, but I stopped
due to IPv6 support. Now I am back at tightvnc and cannot get the
server started. This is on a new Centos install that did have regular
vncserver working on it (I did a yum erase vnc-server first).
So I have a working /etc/sysconfig/vncserver and my user has the
appropriate ~/.vnc files that worked with regular vnc.
Logged in as root, I issue: service vncserver start
and get:
Starting TightVNC remote administration daemon (Xvnc):2:root WARNING:
initlog is deprecated and will be removed in a future
vncserver: The USER environment variable is not set.
[FAILED]
But there is a USER environment variable set:
set|grep USER
PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne
"\033]0;${USER}@${HOSTNAME%%.*}:${PWD/#$HOME/~}"; echo -ne
"\007"'
USER=root
(remember, I am logged in as root so I can issue the service command)
And further in /etc/profile I have:
if [ -x /usr/bin/id ]; then
USER="`id -un`"
LOGNAME=$USER
MAIL="/var/spool/mail/$USER"
fi
The only line in the /etc/sysconfig/vncservers is:
VNCSERVERS="2:user"
where user is the userid.
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 1:14 PM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote:> I tried to use tightvnc back in August and had some help, but I stopped due > to IPv6 support. Now I am back at tightvnc and cannot get the server > started. This is on a new Centos install that did have regular vncserver > working on it (I did a yum erase vnc-server first). >Are you sure you don't want to ask this in the rpmforge list? Tightvnc is an rpmforge package, not a CentOS (or RHEL) package.... mhr
MHR wrote:> On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 1:14 PM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote: > >> I tried to use tightvnc back in August and had some help, but I stopped due >> to IPv6 support. Now I am back at tightvnc and cannot get the server >> started. This is on a new Centos install that did have regular vncserver >> working on it (I did a yum erase vnc-server first). >> >> > > Are you sure you don't want to ask this in the rpmforge list? >I have and on the vnc list.> Tightvnc is an rpmforge package, not a CentOS (or RHEL) package....yes, but there could well be people here that have it working that do not follow either the rpmforge list or the vnc list. I did some more testing. This problem only occurs for userid root (yes I am allowing root login via VNC, but this is in a test setup in a closed network on test servers). userid foo only has font problems which are fixed with: cd /usr/X11R6/ mkdir lib cd lib ln -s /usr/share/X11