[Pkg-tigervnc-devel] Bug#1000871: Bug#1000871: tigervnc-standalone-server: server fails to start

[Ola Lundqvist]

Hi

Just a check question. Is your bug about the lack of useful documentation
or the fact that it segfaults?
It should not segfault...

// Ola

On Tue, 30 Nov 2021 at 15:03, Celejar <celejar at gmail.com> wrote:

> Package: tigervnc-standalone-server
> Version: 1.11.0+dfsg-3
> Severity: important
> X-Debbugs-Cc: celejar at gmail.com
>
> This package contains no useful documentation or explanation of how to
> start the server in /usr/share/doc. As per 'man tigervncserver', I
> tried:
>
> *****
>
> ~$ tigervncserver
>
> *****
>
> And the server promptly segfaulted:
>
> *****
>
> New Xtigervnc server 'nnnnnnnn.nnnnnnnn:1 (nnnnnnnn)' on port 5901 for
> display :1.
> Use xtigervncviewer -SecurityTypes VncAuth -passwd
> /home/nnnnnnnn/.vnc/passwd :1 to connect to the VNC server.
>
>
> =================== tail /home/nnnnnnnn/.vnc/nnnnnnnn.nnnnnnnn:5901.log
> ===================
> Segmentation fault
> X connection to :1 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
>  ComparingUpdateTracker: 0 pixels in / 0 pixels out
>  ComparingUpdateTracker: (1:-nan ratio)
> Killing Xtigervnc process ID 9433... success!
>
> ======================================================================================
>
> Session startup via '/etc/X11/Xtigervnc-session' 'startxfce4' cleanly
> exited too early (< 3 seconds)!
>
> Maybe try something simple first, e.g.,
>         tigervncserver -xstartup /usr/bin/xterm
> The Xtigervnc server cleanly exited!
> The X session cleanly exited!
>
> *****
>
> As per the above output, I tried:
>
> *****
>
> ~$ tigervncserver -xstartup /usr/bin/xterm
>
> *****
>
> No segfault, but it still didn't work:
>
> *****
>
> New Xtigervnc server 'nnnnnnnn.nnnnnnnn:1 (nnnnnnnn)' on port 5901 for
> display :1.
> Use xtigervncviewer -SecurityTypes VncAuth -passwd
> /home/nnnnnnnn/.vnc/passwd :1 to connect to the VNC server.
>
>
> =================== tail /home/nnnnnnnn/.vnc/nnnnnnnn.nnnnnnnn:5901.log
> ===================
>
> ======================================================================================
>
> Session startup via '/usr/bin/xterm' 'startxfce4' cleanly exited too early
> (< 3 seconds)!
>
> Maybe try something simple first, e.g.,
>         tigervncserver -xstartup /usr/bin/xterm
> The X session cleanly exited!
> Killing Xtigervnc process ID 9525... success!
>
> *****
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: bookworm/sid
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386
>
> Kernel: Linux 5.15.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE
> not set
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
> LSM: AppArmor: enabled
>
> Versions of packages tigervnc-standalone-server depends on:
> ii  libaudit1                   1:3.0.6-1+b1
> ii  libbsd0                     0.11.3-1
> ii  libc6                       2.32-4
> ii  libfile-readbackwards-perl  1.06-1
> ii  libgcrypt20                 1.9.4-4
> ii  libgl1                      1.3.4-2+b1
> ii  libgnutls30                 3.7.2-2
> ii  libjpeg62-turbo             1:2.1.2-1
> ii  libpam0g                    1.4.0-10
> ii  libpixman-1-0               0.40.0-1
> ii  libselinux1                 3.3-1+b1
> ii  libstdc++6                  11.2.0-12
> ii  libsystemd0                 249.7-1
> ii  libunwind8                  1.3.2-2
> ii  libxau6                     1:1.0.9-1
> ii  libxdmcp6                   1:1.1.2-3
> ii  libxfont2                   1:2.0.5-1
> ii  perl                        5.32.1-6
> ii  tigervnc-common             1.11.0+dfsg-3
> ii  x11-xkb-utils               7.7+5
> ii  xauth                       1:1.1-1
> ii  xkb-data                    2.33-1
> ii  zlib1g                      1:1.2.11.dfsg-2
>
> Versions of packages tigervnc-standalone-server recommends:
> ii  libgl1-mesa-dri    21.2.6-1
> ii  x11-xserver-utils  7.7+9
> ii  xfonts-base        1:1.0.5
>
> Versions of packages tigervnc-standalone-server suggests:
> ii  xfonts-100dpi    1:1.0.4+nmu1.1
> ii  xfonts-75dpi     1:1.0.4+nmu1.1
> ii  xfonts-scalable  1:1.0.3-1.2
>
> -- no debconf information
>
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