After upgrading to tigervnc-1.12.0-r2 from 1.9.0-r2, the service failed to start. This only happens if the variable VNC_OPTS is set in /etc/conf.d/tigervnc. # /etc/init.d/tigervnc start * Caching service dependencies ... [ ok ] * Starting TigerVNC server ... [ !! ] * ERROR: tigervnc failed to start As there is not detailed message I have debugged the init script /etc/init.d/tigervnc, which launches tigervnc via /usr/libexec/vncsession-start :${user##*:} $vnc_opts &>/dev/null Starting vnc manually this way, without redirection to /dev/null, results in the following: # /usr/libexec/vncsession-start :1 -localhost Syntax: /usr/libexec/vncsession-start <display> Thus, it seems the vncsession-start script does not allow additional parameters to be passed. Reproducible: Always # emerge --info tigervnc Portage 3.0.30 (python 3.9.9-final-0, default/linux/amd64/17.1/desktop/plasma, gcc-11.2.1, glibc-2.33-r13, 5.15.26-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System Settings ================================================================= System uname: Linux-5.15.26-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7-3770_CPU_@_3.40GHz-with-glibc2.33 KiB Mem: 32272096 total, 23981164 free KiB Swap: 16801788 total, 16801788 free Timestamp of repository gentoo: Mon, 21 Mar 2022 06:19:29 +0000 Head commit of repository gentoo: f73ec29a7044e0992e3ff787778f7de0cfa380d5 sh bash 5.1_p16 ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.37_p1 p2) 2.37 app-misc/pax-utils: 1.3.3::gentoo app-shells/bash: 5.1_p16::gentoo dev-java/java-config: 2.3.1::gentoo dev-lang/perl: 5.34.0-r6::gentoo dev-lang/python: 2.7.18_p14::gentoo, 3.9.9-r1::gentoo, 3.10.2_p1::gentoo dev-lang/rust: 1.58.1::gentoo dev-util/cmake: 3.22.2::gentoo dev-util/meson: 0.60.3::gentoo sys-apps/baselayout: 2.7-r3::gentoo sys-apps/openrc: 0.44.10::gentoo sys-apps/sandbox: 2.25::gentoo sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13-r1::gentoo, 2.71-r1::gentoo sys-devel/automake: 1.13.4-r2::gentoo, 1.16.4::gentoo sys-devel/binutils: 2.37_p1-r2::gentoo sys-devel/binutils-config: 5.4::gentoo sys-devel/clang: 13.0.1::gentoo sys-devel/gcc: 11.2.1_p20220115::gentoo sys-devel/gcc-config: 2.5-r1::gentoo sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.6-r6::gentoo sys-devel/lld: 13.0.1::gentoo sys-devel/llvm: 13.0.1::gentoo sys-devel/make: 4.3::gentoo sys-kernel/linux-headers: 5.15-r3::gentoo (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.33-r13::gentoo Repositories: gentoo location: /var/db/repos/gentoo sync-type: git sync-uri: https://github.com/gentoo-mirror/gentoo.git priority: -1000 sync-git-verify-commit-signature: true shared_overlay location: /opt/conf/common/var/db/repos/shared_overlay masters: gentoo priority: 100 local_overlay location: /var/db/repos/local_overlay masters: gentoo priority: 200 Installed sets: @system ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="*" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe -ftree-vectorize -ggdb" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /usr/share/maven-bin-3.8/conf /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords/99-autounmask /etc/portage/package.unmask/99-autounmask /etc/portage/package.use/99-autounmask /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe -ftree-vectorize -ggdb" DISTDIR="/var/cache/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--with-bdeps=y --autounmask=y --autounmask-write --autounmask-continue --jobs=2 --load-average=8 --backtrack=100 --alert" ENV_UNSET="CARGO_HOME DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS DISPLAY GOBIN GOPATH PERL5LIB PERL5OPT PERLPREFIX PERL_CORE PERL_MB_OPT PERL_MM_OPT XAUTHORITY XDG_CACHE_HOME XDG_CONFIG_HOME XDG_DATA_HOME XDG_RUNTIME_DIR" FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-docompress binpkg-dostrip binpkg-logs buildpkg-live compressdebug config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles ipc-sandbox merge-sync multilib-strict network-sandbox news parallel-fetch parallel-install pid-sandbox preserve-libs protect-owned qa-unresolved-soname-deps sandbox sfperms sign splitdebug strict strict-keepdir unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync xattr" FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org" LANG="en_US.utf8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" MAKEOPTS="-j8" PKGDIR="/var/cache/binpkgs" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local 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fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock greis isync itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf skytraq superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ublox ubx" GRUB_PLATFORMS="efi-64" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" LUA_SINGLE_TARGET="lua5-1" LUA_TARGETS="lua5-1" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php7-4 php8-0" POSTGRES_TARGETS="postgres12 postgres13" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python3_9" PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_9" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby26 ruby27" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="intel i965" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq proto steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: ADDR2LINE, AR, ARFLAGS, AS, ASFLAGS, CC, CCLD, CONFIG_SHELL, CPP, CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, CXX, CXXFILT, ELFEDIT, EXTRA_ECONF, F77FLAGS, FC, GCOV, GPROF, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LD, LEX, LFLAGS, LIBTOOL, LINGUAS, MAKE, MAKEFLAGS, NM, OBJCOPY, OBJDUMP, PORTAGE_BINHOST, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, RANLIB, READELF, SIZE, STRINGS, STRIP, YACC, YFLAGS ================================================================= Package Settings ================================================================= net-misc/tigervnc-1.12.0-r2::gentoo was built with the following: USE="drm nls opengl server xinerama xorgmodule -dri3 -gnutls -java" ABI_X86="(64)"
In my case it was easy to workaround via ~/.vnc/config. Is there a use case for service wide VNC_OPTS? Otherwise the solution might be to simply remove the VNC_OPTS support.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=f94f6f15314c9a4b161efacb57042744346bc234 commit f94f6f15314c9a4b161efacb57042744346bc234 Author: Viorel Munteanu <ceamac.paragon@gmail.com> AuthorDate: 2022-03-22 07:27:03 +0000 Commit: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2022-03-22 18:01:11 +0000 net-misc/tigervnc: Fix the init script Remove $VNC_OPTS from conf.d Make init script POSIX compliant Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/835730 Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/506522 Signed-off-by: Viorel Munteanu <ceamac.paragon@gmail.com> Closes: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/24703 Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> net-misc/tigervnc/files/tigervnc-1.12.0.confd | 4 ++-- net-misc/tigervnc/files/tigervnc-1.12.0.initd | 28 ++++++++++------------ ...-1.12.0-r2.ebuild => tigervnc-1.12.0-r3.ebuild} | 0 3 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
