Public bug reported: Xubuntu 18.04 : TigerVNC gives a black screen in the viewer.
In Xubuntu 16.04 I used the TigerVNC 1.8.0 debs as provided by upstream (https://bintray.com/tigervnc/stable/tigervnc/1.8.0#files/ubuntu-16.04LTS%2Famd64). For Xubuntu 18.04 however upstream points to the Ubuntu repositories. I installed the 1.7.0 tigervnc-{common,viewer,{scraping,standalone}-server} debs I found there. I noticed that the /usr/bin/vncserver script was rewritten. Using this new version (vncserver :60) gives a huge black screen in the viewer. It looks like the ~/.vnc/config file is ignored and that X is not started. Luckily the upstream vncserver (.orig) script is also provided. Using that one gives a normally sized, but still black screen. It looks like the ~/.vnc/config file honoured now, but that X is still not started. There is nothing noteworthy in the ~/.vnc/<host>:60.log file. The ~.xsession-errors file however reports: -- Xsession: X session started for root at Sun Apr 29 17:47:33 CEST 2018 -- dbus-update-activation-environment: setting DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/run/user/0/bus -- dbus-update-activation-environment: setting DISPLAY=:60 ..... -- /usr/bin/x-session-manager: X server already running on display :60 -- xfce4-session: Another session manager is already running ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04 Package: tigervnc-standalone-server 1.7.0+dfsg-8ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-20.21-generic 4.15.17 Uname: Linux 4.15.0-20-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: XFCE Date: Sun Apr 29 17:50:54 2018 SourcePackage: tigervnc UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) ** Affects: tigervnc (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug bionic -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1767822 Title: Xubuntu 18.04 : TigerVNC gives a black screen in the viewer To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tigervnc/+bug/1767822/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
