Bugzilla Bug 138779

I just noticed today aftering unmerging xorg-x11-6.8.2-r8 and remerging the new
modular xorg-x11-7.0-r1 that "vncserver" of tightvnc-1.2.9-r1 failed to start.

It complained that it couldn't find any fonts:

$ vncserver
Couldn't start Xvnc; trying default font path.
Please set correct fontPath in the vncserver script.
Couldn't start Xvnc process.
[...snip...]
Font directory '/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/' not found - ignoring
Font directory '/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/' not found - ignoring
[...snip...]
Fatal server error:
could not open default font 'fixed'

I was able to solve the problem by adding the new xorg-x11-7 font paths
(specifically, /usr/share/fonts/) to the /usr/bin/vncserver perl script:

$ diff -u /usr/bin/vncserver.original /usr/bin/vncserver
--- /usr/bin/vncserver.original 2006-07-01 18:08:13.000000000 -0400
+++ /usr/bin/vncserver  2006-07-01 18:28:18.000000000 -0400
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
 $fontPath = "unix/:-1";

 # Here is another example of setting the font path:
-$fontPath = "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/";
+$fontPath =
"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/share/fonts/misc/,/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/";

 # X colors database path is optional, uncomment and edit to use:
 # $colorPath = "/usr/lib/X11/rgb";
$

The ebuild tightvnc-1.2.9-r1.ebuild is already patching /usr/bin/vncviewer via
${FILESDIR}/${P}-gentoo.diff ; It seems like it won't break anything to add the
/usr/share/fonts/ paths to the patch we're already applying.

This also applies to Xvnc binary. If you need to run that directly, it also
fails with same errors. 

I had the same problem (same versions of tightvnc and xorg-x11) and the one
line patch above was all that was needed to get it working again.

*** Bug 139673 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

I have same troubles,
Moreover, after fiddling with the fonts path, I was able to start vncservers,
and if they're using twm it's ok (well for the very few things I checked)
but if you're using wmaker as a wm, then it fails because of lack of definition
of BLACK/GRAY/ and so on , which I guess is dependent of the rgb db ..(not
sure)

well strangely tho I'm using wmaker on my real desktop and there it works..
maybe this should become a wmaker bug ?

well seems the rgb problem is solved


either make a link from new location to old expected
or edit /usr/bin/vncserver
and fix as such :

# X colors database path is optional, uncomment and edit to use:
$colorPath = "/usr/share/X11/rgb";

i fixed this issue in 1.2.9-r2 all arches should mark this as stable if they
have the new X.

Still can't run Xvn directly:



mka@mjollnir:~$ Xvnc :50 -query localhost -once -geometry 1400x830
Couldn't open RGB_DB '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb'
23/07/06 09:40:18 Xvnc version 3.3.tight1.2.9
23/07/06 09:40:18 Copyright (C) 1999 AT&T Laboratories Cambridge.
23/07/06 09:40:18 Copyright (C) 2000-2002 Constantin Kaplinsky.
23/07/06 09:40:18 All Rights Reserved.
23/07/06 09:40:18 See http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc for information on VNC
23/07/06 09:40:18 See http://www.tightvnc.com for TightVNC-specific information
23/07/06 09:40:18 Desktop name 'x11' (mjollnir:50)
23/07/06 09:40:18 Protocol version supported 3.3
23/07/06 09:40:18 Listening for VNC connections on TCP port 5950
Font directory '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/' not found - ignoring
Font directory '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/' not found - ignoring
Font directory '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/' not found - ignoring
Font directory '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/' not found - ignoring
Font directory '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/' not found - ignoring

Fatal server error:
could not open default font 'fixed'

1) emerges fine
2) passes collision test
3) started vncserver, I did not test it though

but when started with an unknown option as "-djakdjasljd" it states the error
about the font path.

Portage 2.1-r1 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.3.6-r4,
2.6.16-gentoo-r13 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.16-gentoo-r13 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2500+
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.15
app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present]
dev-lang/python:     2.4.3-r1
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     [Not Present]
dev-util/confcache:  [Not Present]
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash
/etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-O2"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig ccache collision-protect distlocks metadata-transfer
parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict test"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo/"
LANG="de_DE@euro"
LC_ALL="de_DE@euro"
LINGUAS="de"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress
--force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180
--exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowext X Xaw3d a52 alsa arts artworkextra asf audiofile avi
bash-completion beagle berkdb bidi bitmap-fonts bootsplash branding bzip2 cairo
cdda cddb cdparanoia cdr cli cracklib crypt css cups curl custom-cflags dbus
dga directfb divx4linux dlloader dri dts dvd dvdr dvdread dvi eds emacs emboss
encode esd evo exif expat fam fat fbcon fdftk ffmpeg firefox foomaticdb fortran
ftp gb gcj gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hal icq idn
imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 isdnlog java javascript jikes jpeg jpeg2k ldap leim
libg++ libwww lm_sensors mad maildir matroska mbox mikmod mime mmx mmxext mng
mono motif mp3 mpeg mpeg2 mule nautilus ncurses nforce2 nls nocardbus nptl
nptlonly nsplugin nvidia ogg opengl pam pcre pdf pdflib perl plotutils pmu png
ppds pppd preview-latex print python qt qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection
reiserfs samba sdk session slang spell spl sse ssl svg svga t1lib tcltk tcpd
theora thunderbird tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev usb vcd videos
vorbis win32codecs wmf wxwindows xine xml xorg xosd xv xvid zlib elibc_glibc
input_devices_mouse input_devices_keyboard kernel_linux linguas_de userland_GNU
video_cards_radeon video_cards_vesa video_cards_fbdev"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS,
PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

Created an attachment (id=92780) [edit]
Output from various emerge runs

As you can see from the included output, there is NO dependency on xauth.

Also, there should be a dependncy for font-misc-misc and font-alias, since they
are a requirement for the ''fixed'' font.

The package x11-apps/rgb would be nice, even if it is not strictly required.

The standard xstartup script uses twm, but twm is not a dependency either (not
sure i would want it as a dependcy though).

x86 gone ^.^

Already stabled on ppc by hansmi.

Stable on SPARC.  Note a patch from Debian was added to fix vncserver display
corruption for PPC and SPARC. 

Working nicely on amd64

emerge --info
Portage 2.1-r1 (default-linux/amd64/2006.0, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.3.6-r4,
2.6.17-suspend2-r3-Dudebox-Edition x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.17-suspend2-r3-Dudebox-Edition x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64
Processor 3200+
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.15
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present]
dev-lang/python:     2.4.3-r1
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     2.3
dev-util/confcache:  [Not Present]
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe -msse3"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config
/usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe -msse3"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig ccache collision-protect distlocks metadata-transfer
multilib-strict parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict test userfetch userpriv
usersandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.wh2.tu-dresden.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo
ftp://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gentoo-mirror/
ftp:///ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/"
LINGUAS="de"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress
--force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180
--exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://server/gentoo-portage"
USE="amd64 X alsa arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cli crypt cups dlloader dri eds
emboss encode foomaticdb fortran gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imlib ipv6
isdnlog jpeg kde kdeenablefinal lzw lzw-tiff mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl opengl
pam pcre pdflib perl png pppd python qt qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection
sdl session spell spl ssl tcpd tiff truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb
userlocales xorg xpm xv zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_keyboard
input_devices_mouse input_devices_evdev kernel_linux linguas_de userland_GNU
video_cards_dummy"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS,
MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

amd64 stable.

Still some issues here with 1.2.9-r2:

vncserver -localhost -nolisten tcp -geometry 1010x680
Couldn't start Xvnc; trying default font path.
Please set correct fontPath in the vncserver script.
Couldn't start Xvnc process.

19/08/06 16:50:03 Xvnc version 3.3.tight1.2.9
19/08/06 16:50:03 Copyright (C) 1999 AT&T Laboratories Cambridge.
19/08/06 16:50:03 Copyright (C) 2000-2002 Constantin Kaplinsky.
19/08/06 16:50:03 All Rights Reserved.
19/08/06 16:50:03 See http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc for information on VNC
19/08/06 16:50:03 See http://www.tightvnc.com for TightVNC-specific information
19/08/06 16:50:03 Desktop name 'X' (superlupo:1)
19/08/06 16:50:03 Protocol version supported 3.3
19/08/06 16:50:03 Listening for VNC connections on TCP port 5901
19/08/06 16:50:03 Listening for HTTP connections on TCP port 5801
19/08/06 16:50:03   URL http://superlupo:5801
failed to set default font path
'/usr/share/fonts/misc/,/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/,/usr/share/fonts/corefonts/'
Fatal server error:
could not open default font 'fixed'
19/08/06 16:50:04 Xvnc version 3.3.tight1.2.9
19/08/06 16:50:04 Copyright (C) 1999 AT&T Laboratories Cambridge.
19/08/06 16:50:04 Copyright (C) 2000-2002 Constantin Kaplinsky.
19/08/06 16:50:04 All Rights Reserved.
19/08/06 16:50:04 See http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc for information on VNC
19/08/06 16:50:04 See http://www.tightvnc.com for TightVNC-specific information
19/08/06 16:50:04 Desktop name 'X' (superlupo:1)
19/08/06 16:50:04 Protocol version supported 3.3
19/08/06 16:50:04 Listening for VNC connections on TCP port 5901
19/08/06 16:50:04 Listening for HTTP connections on TCP port 5801
19/08/06 16:50:04   URL http://superlupo:5801
Font directory '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/' not found - ignoring
Font directory '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/' not found - ignoring
Font directory '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/' not found - ignoring
Font directory '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/' not found - ignoring
Font directory '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/' not found - ignoring

Fatal server error:
could not open default font 'fixed'

So i tried the unstable version net-misc/tightvnc-1.3_alpha7, which works and
noticed it has $fontPath = "/usr/share/fonts/misc/,/usr/share/fonts/Type1/"; in
/usr/bin/vncserver
Using that line in 1.9.2-r2 works fine for me, and when editing fontPath
further i noticed /usr/share/fonts/corefonts seems to be the culprit - removing
it from fontpath solves the problem. As others have appearently tried this
ebuild before, am i the only one running into this problem? I have it on 3
different systems.

emerge info for one of them:
Portage 2.1-r2 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.3.6-r4,
2.6.17-gentoo-r5 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.17-gentoo-r5 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 2.00GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.4
app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present]
dev-lang/python:     2.4.3-r1
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     [Not Present]
dev-util/confcache:  [Not Present]
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r2
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium-m -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config
/usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/X11/xkb
/usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium-m -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict
userpriv usersandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.inode.at/ ftp://gentoo.inode.at/source/"
LINGUAS="en de"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress
--force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180
--exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://192.168.0.75/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X aalib alsa apache2 apm atm avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdparanoia
cli crypt cups divx4linux dlloader dri dvd dvdr emacs emboss encode esd
ethereal fam fbcon ffmpeg flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gpm gtk gtk2 icq
imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 isdnlog java jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx
mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl offensive ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcre pdflib
perl png ppds pppd python qt3 qt4 quicktime readline real reflection samba sasl
sdl session smtp spell spl sse sse2 ssl tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts
type1-fonts udev vcd vorbis win32codecs wxwindows xine xinetd xml xmms xorg xv
xvid zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_evdev input_devices_mouse
input_devices_keyboard input_devices_joystick kernel_linux linguas_en
linguas_de userland_GNU video_cards_i810"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS,
PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

(In reply to comment #15)
> Still some issues here with 1.2.9-r2:

See bug 146099 for solution.

amd64 is not so stable ;-)

Okay arches, tightvnc-1.2.9-r3 is on the tree with an enhanced ebuild and with
the needed dependencies.

The actual stable version needs some dependencies fixed, that are fixed in
1.2.9-r3.

Stabilize it, thanks.

Forgot to say, use the USE-flag "server", please.

In x86:

Works and compiles nice.

Portage 2.1.1 (default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r3,
2.6.17-gentoo-r8 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.17-gentoo-r8 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) Processor
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.5
Last Sync: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 14:50:01 +0000
distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632)
[disabled]
app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present]
dev-java/java-config: [Not Present]
dev-lang/python:     2.4.3-r4
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     [Not Present]
dev-util/confcache:  [Not Present]
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r4
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.17-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon-tbird -mtune=athlon-tbird  -O2 -pipe
-fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-tbird -mtune=athlon-tbird  -O2 -pipe
-fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig collision-protect distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox
sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/ "
LINGUAS=""
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress
--force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180
--exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage /usr/portage/local/layman/sunrise"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.belnet.be/packages/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo cdr cli crypt dbus dlloader dri dvd dvdr
eds elibc_glibc emboss encode fam firefox fortran gif gpm gstreamer gtk hal
input_devices_evdev input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse isdnlog jpeg
kernel_linux ldap libg++ mad mikmod mp3 mpeg ncurses nptl nptlonly ogg opengl
pam pcre perl png ppds pppd python qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection sdl
session spell spl ssl tcpd truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode
userland_GNU video_cards_vesa vorbis win32codecs xml xorg xv zlib"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS,
MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

emerge fails:

 * Cannot find $EPATCH_SOURCE!  Value for $EPATCH_SOURCE is:
 *
 *   /usr/portage/net-misc/tightvnc/files/tightvnc-1.2.9-pathfixes.patch
 *   ( tightvnc-1.2.9-pathfixes.patch )

(In reply to comment #19)
> emerge fails:
> 
>  * Cannot find $EPATCH_SOURCE!  Value for $EPATCH_SOURCE is:
>  *
>  *   /usr/portage/net-misc/tightvnc/files/tightvnc-1.2.9-pathfixes.patch
>  *   ( tightvnc-1.2.9-pathfixes.patch )
> 
Thanks for the report Markus. Fixed now, resync, and reemerge :)

Domo arigato!

- emerges fine on amd64
- passes collision-test
- passes multilib-strict
- works

Portage 2.1.1-r1 (default-linux/amd64/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.5-r0,
2.6.18-ck1 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.18-ck1 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.5
Last Sync: Mon, 09 Oct 2006 16:30:01 +0000
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present]
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.30
dev-lang/python:     2.4.3-r4
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     2.3
dev-util/confcache:  [Not Present]
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r4
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf
/etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig buildsyspkg ccache collision-protect distlocks
metadata-transfer multilib-strict parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict test"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gentoo-mirror/
ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo
ftp://ftp.join.uni-muenster.de/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo
ftp://ftp.wh2.tu-dresden.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo
ftp://ftp.join.uni-muenster.de/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo
ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/
ftp://ftp.gentoo.mesh-solutions.com/gentoo/
ftp://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/ "
LANG="en_US"
LC_ALL="en_US"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS="--exclude-from=/etc/portage/rsync_excludes"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress
--force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180
--exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/overlay"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="amd64 X a52 aac acpi alsa amr berkdb bitmap-fonts branding bzip2 cairo
cdinstall cdparanoia cdr cli crypt cups dbus divx dlloader dri dvd dvdr dvdread
elibc_glibc emboss encode expat fam ffmpeg firefox fortran gdbm gif glut gnutls
gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal imagemagick input_devices_evdev
input_devices_keyboard isdnlog jpeg kernel_linux lcms ldap libg++ lirc
lirc_devices_inputlirc logrotate mad mikmod mng mp3 mpeg musicbrainz ncurses
nls nptl nptlonly offensive ogg opengl pam pcre php png ppds pppd quicktime
readline reflection reiserfs rtc sdl session socks5 spl ssl svg symlink tcpd
test tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode userland_GNU
userlocales v4l v4l2 video_cards_fglrx vim-with-x vorbis wmp xfs xine xinerama
xml xorg xv xvid zlib zvbi"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS

amd64 stable

1.) emerges fine on x86
2.) passes collision test
3.) works

emerge --info
Portage 2.1.1 (default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r3,
2.6.18 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.18 i686 Genuine Intel(R) CPU           T2300  @ 1.66GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.5
Last Sync: Mon, 09 Oct 2006 16:50:01 +0000
ccache version 2.3 [disabled]
app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present]
dev-java/java-config: 1.2.11-r1
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5-r3, 2.4.3-r4
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     2.3
dev-util/confcache:  [Not Present]
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r4
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.17-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=prescott -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config
/usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config
/usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/
/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/
/usr/share/texmf/xdvi/"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=prescott -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig collision-protect distlocks metadata-transfer
parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict test userfetch userpriv usersandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
LINGUAS="en de en_GB de_CH"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress
--force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180
--exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X a52 aac acpi alsa apache2 asf berkdb bitmap-fonts cairo cdr cdrom
cli crypt cups dbus divx dlloader dri dts dvd dvdr dvdread eds elibc_glibc
emboss encode fam ffmpeg firefox flac fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk
hal input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse ipv6 isdnlog java jpeg kde
kernel_linux ldap libg++ linguas_de linguas_de_CH linguas_en linguas_en_GB mad
mikmod mmx mono mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl oss pam pcre perl
png ppds pppd python qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection rtsp samba sdl
session smp spell spl sse sse2 sse3 ssl svg tcpd tetex theora threads truetype
truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode userland_GNU vcd video_cards_fbdev
video_cards_i810 video_cards_vesa vorbis win32codecs wxwindows x264 xine xml
xorg xprint xv xvid zlib"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS,
PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

x86 stable

Should add that tightvnc-1.2.9-r3 works here on ppc both with server and
client.

net-misc/tightvnc-1.2.9-r3  USE="java server tcpd"

Portage 2.1.1-r1 (default-linux/ppc/ppc32/2006.0, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r3,
2.6.18-20061003 ppc)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.18-20061003 ppc 7455, altivec supported
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.5
Last Sync: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 16:50:01 +0000
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present]
dev-java/java-config: 1.2.11-r1
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5, 2.4.3-r4
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     2.3
dev-util/confcache:  0.4.2-r1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r4
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.16
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="ppc"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -mtune=G4 -maltivec -mabi=altivec -pipe"
CHOST="powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo
/etc/texmf/web2c"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mtune=G4 -maltivec -mabi=altivec -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig ccache collision-protect confcache distlocks
metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict userpriv usersandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/gentoo/
http://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/
http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo"
LANG="en_US.ISO-8859-1"
LINGUAS="de en en_GB"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress
--force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180
--exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/overlays/local /usr/portage/local/layman/science
/usr/portage/local/layman/postgresql-experimental"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="ppc X alsa altivec apache2 apm bitmap-fonts bonobo bzip2 cdr cli crypt
curl dlloader dri dvd eds elibc_glibc emboss encode foomaticdb gif gpm
gstreamer gtkhtml imlib input_devices_evdev input_devices_keyboard
input_devices_mouse ipv6 isdnlog jpeg kde kernel_linux libg++ libwww linguas_de
linguas_en linguas_en_GB mad motif mozilla mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl ogg opengl
pam pcre perl pic png pppd python qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection samba
sdl session slang spell spl ssl svg tcpd truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts
udev unicode userland_GNU video_cards_radeon vorbis xinerama xml xorg xv zlib"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS,
PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

stable on ppc, thanks for testing Matti

stable on sparc

Assign to eroyf :)

Stable on Alpha.
Closing.