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

[Celejar]

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:

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~$ tigervncserver

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And the server promptly segfaulted:

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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!
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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!

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As per the above output, I tried:

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~$ tigervncserver -xstartup /usr/bin/xterm

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No segfault, but it still didn't work:

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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 ===================
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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!

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-- 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

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