Attempting to start vncserver fails: $ vncserver -geometry 1000x750 Couldn't start Xvnc; trying default font path. Please set correct fontPath in the vncserver script. Couldn't start Xvnc process. 14/02/06 12:10:32 Xvnc version TightVNC-1.3dev7 14/02/06 12:10:32 Copyright (C) 2000-2003 Constantin Kaplinsky 14/02/06 12:10:32 Copyright (C) 1999 AT&T Laboratories Cambridge 14/02/06 12:10:32 All Rights Reserved. 14/02/06 12:10:32 See http://www.tightvnc.com/ for information on TightVNC 14/02/06 12:10:32 Desktop name 'X' (rich64:1) 14/02/06 12:10:32 Protocol versions supported: 3.7t, 3.7, 3.3 14/02/06 12:10:32 Listening for VNC connections on TCP port 5901 14/02/06 12:10:32 Listening for HTTP connections on TCP port 5801 14/02/06 12:10:32 URL http://rich64:5801 Font directory '/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/' not found - ignoring Font directory '/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/' not found - ignoring Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' 14/02/06 12:10:33 Xvnc version TightVNC-1.3dev7 14/02/06 12:10:33 Copyright (C) 2000-2003 Constantin Kaplinsky 14/02/06 12:10:33 Copyright (C) 1999 AT&T Laboratories Cambridge 14/02/06 12:10:33 All Rights Reserved. 14/02/06 12:10:33 See http://www.tightvnc.com/ for information on TightVNC 14/02/06 12:10:33 Desktop name 'X' (rich64:1) 14/02/06 12:10:33 Protocol versions supported: 3.7t, 3.7, 3.3 14/02/06 12:10:33 Listening for VNC connections on TCP port 5901 14/02/06 12:10:33 Listening for HTTP connections on TCP port 5801 14/02/06 12:10:33 URL http://rich64:5801 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' xorg-x11 works fine. Generic vnc starts fine, but crashes frequently. I had previously been running tightvnc 32-bit, but the current ebuilds don't work even if installed 32-bit. Despite much tinkering with my X11 fonts directories I haven't been able to figure out what is wrong. I have re-emerged xorg to ensure the font directories are in their default state. emerge info output: Portage 2.0.54 (default-linux/amd64/2005.1, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.15-gentoo-r1-rf41 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo-r1-rf41 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 distcc 2.18.3 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 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 -Os -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -frename-registers -fweb -funit-at-a-time" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /home /opt/zetagrid /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib64/mozilla/defaults/pref /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/ /var/bind /var/freenet /var/qmail/control /var/www" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -Os -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -frename-registers -fweb -funit-at-a-time" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig buildpkg ccache distlocks multilib-strict nostrip sandbox sfperms strict userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/ http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/ ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/var/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 X aac aalib aim alsa apache2 arts audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo bzip2 canna cdparanoia cdr crypt css ctype cups curl dba dri dts dv dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd ethereal exif expat fam fbcon ffmpeg firefox flac foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif gimpprint glut gmail gmp gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile iconv idn imagemagick imap imlib innodb jabber jack java jpeg junit kde kerberos lcms libcaca libwww lm_sensors lua lzw lzw-tiff mad maildir memlimit mhash mikmod mng motif mozilla mozsvg mp3 mpeg mplayer msn musicbrainz mysql ncurses nls nodrm nptl ntlm oav ogg oggvorbis openal opengl pam pcre pda pdflib perl php png python qt quicktime readline recode ruby samba sasl sdl session slang smime speex spell sqlite ssl svg tcltk tcpd tetex theora tiff timidity truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev usb userlocales vorbis wmf xine xml xml2 xmms xpm xv xvid zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
this sounds very familiar, unfortunately i do not recall what i had fixed here Section "Files" #RgbPath "/usr/lib64/X11/rgb" ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc/" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF/" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/CID/" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/" EndSection let me know if this helps anything, this is from my xorg7 i think i once edited the vncserver script, wonder if this stays behind leading me to believe there is no issue, will look into this tomorrow from my /usr/bin/vncserver: &SanityCheck(); # # Global variables. You may want to configure some of these for your site. # $geometry = "1024x768"; $depth = 24; $desktopName = "X"; $vncClasses = "/usr/share/tightvnc/classes"; $vncUserDir = "$ENV{HOME}/.vnc"; $fontPath = "unix/:-1"; $authType = "-rfbauth $vncUserDir/passwd"; # Here is another example of setting the font path: $fontPath = "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"; # X colors database path is optional, uncomment and edit to use: # $colorPath = "/usr/lib/X11/rgb";
I'd tried tweaking this, but with no luck. I'm not convinced it is a genuine font path issue. I've tried entering a fontpath parameter directly to Xvnc and it still crashes. I verified that an invalid path generates warnings about missing directories, and the valid path generates no warnings other than the final fatal error.
this might take a while to figure out, since the problem hasn't occured in a long time and si i don't recall what fix was. grep eader /cvs/gentoo-x86/net-misc/tightvnc/tightvnc-1.3_alpha7.ebuild what does that print?
Uh, that would give me a file-not-found, but if you really meant: # grep eader /usr/portage/net-misc/tightvnc/tightvnc-1.3_alpha7.ebuild # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/net-misc/tightvnc/tightvnc-1.3_alpha7.ebuild,v 1.7 2006/02/11 22:01:23 morfic Exp $
Created attachment 80570 [details] Strace output on vncserver I attached an strace output in case it will help track down the source of this error. Again, regular vnc works fine, xorg-x11 works fine. So, I obviously have fonts of some kind installed...
I went ahead and compiled xorg-x11 with xfs support, and changed the vncserver script to use the unix socket. It seems to work fine in this configuration. It sounds like either the font files have changed, or tightvnc has changed to prevent it from reading them.
I will close this as later, since you no longer have an issue and i have not heard any other reports like this. If this becomes an issue we can look at it in more detail at a later point. Thank you for reporting this.
I believe this here is a dup of bug #127001.
