[Pkg-tigervnc-devel] Bug#1132361: tigervnc-common: Tigervnc migration of ~/.vnc to ~/.config/tigervnc fails if ~/.config doesn't exist

[Mike Gulick]

Package: tigervnc-common
Version: 1.15.0+dfsg-2
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: mgulick at mathworks.com

Dear Maintainer,

On Debian trixie, when launching tigervnc server for the first time, it
attempts to rename any existing ~/.vnc
folder to ~/.config/tigervnc.  However, on a new headless server that the user
has not logged into graphically yet, ~/.config may not exist.  This results in
vncserver failing with an error message like:

  vncserver: Could not migrate /home/USER/.vnc to /home/USER/.config/tigervnc.

The 'mv' failure is coming from /usr/share/perl5/TigerVNC/Config.pm:1433.
Probably needs a:

  mkpath(dirname($opts->{'vncUserDir'}));

before attempting the mv operation.

This can be reproduced by creating a ~/.vnc directory without a ~/.config
directory, and then running 'vncserver'.

Thanks,
Mike


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 13.4
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 6.12.74+deb13+1-amd64 (SMP w/32 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
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-common depends on:
ii  libc6       2.41-12+deb13u2
ii  libgcc-s1   14.2.0-19
ii  libstdc++6  14.2.0-19
ii  libx11-6    2:1.8.12-1

tigervnc-common recommends no packages.

tigervnc-common suggests no packages.

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/tigervnc/vncserver-config-defaults changed [not included]

-- no debconf information