<div dir="ltr">Hi<div><br></div><div>Thank you.</div><div><br></div><div>I guess the main reason for the lack of documentation is that it is not provided by upstream. This was the case also for tightvnc, vnc4 and vnc(3). I wrote some documentation for those other packages but I guess it was never done for tigervnc.</div><div><br></div><div>I do not think you made anything wrong.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div><br></div><div>// Ola</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 1 Dec 2021 at 00:12, Celejar <<a href="mailto:celejar@gmail.com">celejar@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Primarily the segfault, although the problem is compounded by the<br>
absence of documentation, which makes it difficult to know whether I'm<br>
doing something wrong with my invocation.<br>
<br>
On Tue, 30 Nov 2021 23:07:11 +0100<br>
Ola Lundqvist <<a href="mailto:opal@debian.org" target="_blank">opal@debian.org</a>> wrote:<br>
<br>
> Hi<br>
> <br>
> Just a check question. Is your bug about the lack of useful documentation<br>
> or the fact that it segfaults?<br>
> It should not segfault...<br>
> <br>
> // Ola<br>
> <br>
> On Tue, 30 Nov 2021 at 15:03, Celejar <<a href="mailto:celejar@gmail.com" target="_blank">celejar@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> <br>
> > Package: tigervnc-standalone-server<br>
> > Version: 1.11.0+dfsg-3<br>
> > Severity: important<br>
> > X-Debbugs-Cc: <a href="mailto:celejar@gmail.com" target="_blank">celejar@gmail.com</a><br>
> ><br>
> > This package contains no useful documentation or explanation of how to<br>
> > start the server in /usr/share/doc. As per 'man tigervncserver', I<br>
> > tried:<br>
> ><br>
> > *****<br>
> ><br>
> > ~$ tigervncserver<br>
> ><br>
> > *****<br>
> ><br>
> > And the server promptly segfaulted:<br>
> ><br>
> > *****<br>
> ><br>
> > New Xtigervnc server 'nnnnnnnn.nnnnnnnn:1 (nnnnnnnn)' on port 5901 for<br>
> > display :1.<br>
> > Use xtigervncviewer -SecurityTypes VncAuth -passwd<br>
> > /home/nnnnnnnn/.vnc/passwd :1 to connect to the VNC server.<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> > =================== tail /home/nnnnnnnn/.vnc/nnnnnnnn.nnnnnnnn:5901.log<br>
> > ===================<br>
> > Segmentation fault<br>
> > X connection to :1 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).<br>
> > ComparingUpdateTracker: 0 pixels in / 0 pixels out<br>
> > ComparingUpdateTracker: (1:-nan ratio)<br>
> > Killing Xtigervnc process ID 9433... success!<br>
> ><br>
> > ======================================================================================<br>
> ><br>
> > Session startup via '/etc/X11/Xtigervnc-session' 'startxfce4' cleanly<br>
> > exited too early (< 3 seconds)!<br>
> ><br>
> > Maybe try something simple first, e.g.,<br>
> > tigervncserver -xstartup /usr/bin/xterm<br>
> > The Xtigervnc server cleanly exited!<br>
> > The X session cleanly exited!<br>
> ><br>
> > *****<br>
> ><br>
> > As per the above output, I tried:<br>
> ><br>
> > *****<br>
> ><br>
> > ~$ tigervncserver -xstartup /usr/bin/xterm<br>
> ><br>
> > *****<br>
> ><br>
> > No segfault, but it still didn't work:<br>
> ><br>
> > *****<br>
> ><br>
> > New Xtigervnc server 'nnnnnnnn.nnnnnnnn:1 (nnnnnnnn)' on port 5901 for<br>
> > display :1.<br>
> > Use xtigervncviewer -SecurityTypes VncAuth -passwd<br>
> > /home/nnnnnnnn/.vnc/passwd :1 to connect to the VNC server.<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> > =================== tail /home/nnnnnnnn/.vnc/nnnnnnnn.nnnnnnnn:5901.log<br>
> > ===================<br>
> ><br>
> > ======================================================================================<br>
> ><br>
> > Session startup via '/usr/bin/xterm' 'startxfce4' cleanly exited too early<br>
> > (< 3 seconds)!<br>
> ><br>
> > Maybe try something simple first, e.g.,<br>
> > tigervncserver -xstartup /usr/bin/xterm<br>
> > The X session cleanly exited!<br>
> > Killing Xtigervnc process ID 9525... success!<br>
> ><br>
> > *****<br>
> ><br>
> > -- System Information:<br>
> > Debian Release: bookworm/sid<br>
> > APT prefers unstable<br>
> > APT policy: (500, 'unstable')<br>
> > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)<br>
> > Foreign Architectures: i386<br>
> ><br>
> > Kernel: Linux 5.15.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads)<br>
> > Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE<br>
> > not set<br>
> > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash<br>
> > Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)<br>
> > LSM: AppArmor: enabled<br>
> ><br>
> > Versions of packages tigervnc-standalone-server depends on:<br>
> > ii libaudit1 1:3.0.6-1+b1<br>
> > ii libbsd0 0.11.3-1<br>
> > ii libc6 2.32-4<br>
> > ii libfile-readbackwards-perl 1.06-1<br>
> > ii libgcrypt20 1.9.4-4<br>
> > ii libgl1 1.3.4-2+b1<br>
> > ii libgnutls30 3.7.2-2<br>
> > ii libjpeg62-turbo 1:2.1.2-1<br>
> > ii libpam0g 1.4.0-10<br>
> > ii libpixman-1-0 0.40.0-1<br>
> > ii libselinux1 3.3-1+b1<br>
> > ii libstdc++6 11.2.0-12<br>
> > ii libsystemd0 249.7-1<br>
> > ii libunwind8 1.3.2-2<br>
> > ii libxau6 1:1.0.9-1<br>
> > ii libxdmcp6 1:1.1.2-3<br>
> > ii libxfont2 1:2.0.5-1<br>
> > ii perl 5.32.1-6<br>
> > ii tigervnc-common 1.11.0+dfsg-3<br>
> > ii x11-xkb-utils 7.7+5<br>
> > ii xauth 1:1.1-1<br>
> > ii xkb-data 2.33-1<br>
> > ii zlib1g 1:1.2.11.dfsg-2<br>
> ><br>
> > Versions of packages tigervnc-standalone-server recommends:<br>
> > ii libgl1-mesa-dri 21.2.6-1<br>
> > ii x11-xserver-utils 7.7+9<br>
> > ii xfonts-base 1:1.0.5<br>
> ><br>
> > Versions of packages tigervnc-standalone-server suggests:<br>
> > ii xfonts-100dpi 1:1.0.4+nmu1.1<br>
> > ii xfonts-75dpi 1:1.0.4+nmu1.1<br>
> > ii xfonts-scalable 1:1.0.3-1.2<br>
> ><br>
> > -- no debconf information<br>
> ><br>
> > _______________________________________________<br>
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> ><br>
> <br>
> <br>
> -- <br>
> --------------------- Ola Lundqvist ---------------------------<br>
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<br>
Celejar<br>
</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="courier new, monospace" size="1"> --------------------- Ola Lundqvist ---------------------------</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace" size="1">/ <a href="mailto:opal@debian.org" target="_blank">opal@debian.org</a> </font><a href="mailto:ola@inguza.com" style="font-family:"courier new",monospace;font-size:x-small" target="_blank">ola@inguza.com</a> \</div><div><span style="font-family:"courier new",monospace;font-size:x-small">| </span><a href="http://inguza.com/" style="font-family:"courier new",monospace;font-size:x-small" target="_blank">http://inguza.com/</a><span style="font-family:"courier new",monospace;font-size:x-small"> +46 (0)70-332 1551 |</span><br></div><div><span style="font-family:"courier new",monospace;font-size:x-small"> ---------------------------------------------------------------</span><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div>