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

Celejar celejar at gmail.com
Wed Dec 1 17:49:36 GMT 2021


Thanks for all your work on behalf of Debian. I certainly didn't mean
to blame you for the lack of documentation, and I understand that these
problems are usually upstream's fault.

On Wed, 1 Dec 2021 09:47:37 +0100
Ola Lundqvist <opal at debian.org> wrote:

> Hi
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> 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.
> 
> I do not think you made anything wrong.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> // Ola
> 
> On Wed, 1 Dec 2021 at 00:12, Celejar <celejar at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > 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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> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > >  --------------------- Ola Lundqvist ---------------------------
> > > /  opal at debian.org                     ola at inguza.com                  \
> > > |  http://inguza.com/                  +46 (0)70-332 1551       |
> > >  ---------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >
> > Celejar
> >
> 
> 
> -- 
>  --------------------- Ola Lundqvist ---------------------------
> /  opal at debian.org                     ola at inguza.com                  \
> |  http://inguza.com/                  +46 (0)70-332 1551       |
>  ---------------------------------------------------------------


Celejar



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