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

[Celejar]

Primarily the segfault, although the problem is compounded by the
absence of documentation, which makes it difficult to know whether I'm
doing something wrong with my invocation.

On Tue, 30 Nov 2021 23:07:11 +0100
Ola Lundqvist <opal at debian.org> wrote:

> 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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> >
> 
> 
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Celejar