[CentOS] Centos7 Cant start vncserver

Robert Moskowitz rgm at htt-consult.com
Thu May 25 17:00:19 UTC 2017


Actually it is running:

netstat -tuln | grep 590
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:5901            0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:5902            0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:5903            0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
tcp6       0      0 :::5901                 :::* LISTEN
tcp6       0      0 :::5902                 :::* LISTEN
tcp6       0      0 :::5903                 :::* LISTEN

Why 5901 and 2 are listening, I don't know...

when I vnc to my server I get that basic nasty blank X11 screen.  I 
modified /root/.vnc/xstartup with:

exec /bin/sh /etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc

But restarting vncserver@:3 does not seem to get the vnc client to get 
my xfce desktop, only the blank x11 desktop.

Oh and restart gives the same errors as start does, but the pids are there:

# ls .vnc/
homebase.home.htt:1.log  homebase.home.htt:2.pid  passwd
homebase.home.htt:1.pid  homebase.home.htt:3.log  xstartup
homebase.home.htt:2.log  homebase.home.htt:3.pid

I see:

cat .vnc/homebase.home.htt\:1.log

Xvnc TigerVNC 1.3.1 - built Nov 16 2016 13:38:44
Copyright (C) 1999-2011 TigerVNC Team and many others (see README.txt)
See http://www.tigervnc.org for information on TigerVNC.
Underlying X server release 11702000, The X.Org Foundation


Thu May 25 12:45:56 2017
  vncext:      VNC extension running!
  vncext:      Listening for VNC connections on all interface(s), port 5901
  vncext:      created VNC server for screen 0
/root/.vnc/xstartup: line 5: /etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc: Permission denied
/root/.vnc/xstartup: line 5: exec: /etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc: cannot 
execute: Permission denied

2.log has different errors.

3.log actually has connection information (as I am connecting to 5903?)

thanks

On 05/25/2017 12:37 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> OK, first time configuring vncserver on Centos7.  I have read through 
> a bunch of old messages here on vncserver and thought I had it.  
> Obviously not.
>
> 1)    cp /usr/lib/systemd/system/vncserver at .service 
> /etc/systemd/system/vncserver at .service
> 2)    vi /etc/systemd/system/vncserver at .service
>
> I changed <USER> in both places to root
>
> 3)    systemctl daemon-reload
> 4)    systemctl enable vncserver@:3.service
> 5)    vncpasswd
>         To create /root/.vnc/passwd
> 6)    systemctl start vncserver@:3.service
>
> # systemctl -l status vncserver@:3
> ● vncserver@:3.service - Remote desktop service (VNC)
>    Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/vncserver at .service; enabled; 
> vendor preset: disabled)
>    Active: failed (Result: resources) since Thu 2017-05-25 12:31:13 
> EDT; 13s ago
>   Process: 5173 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/runuser -l root -c 
> /usr/bin/vncserver %i (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
>   Process: 5170 ExecStartPre=/bin/sh -c /usr/bin/vncserver -kill %i > 
> /dev/null 2>&1 || : (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
>
> May 25 12:31:10 homebase.home.htt systemd[1]: Starting Remote desktop 
> service (VNC)...
> May 25 12:31:13 homebase.home.htt systemd[1]: PID file 
> /home/root/.vnc/homebase.home.htt:3.pid not readable (yet?) after start.
> May 25 12:31:13 homebase.home.htt systemd[1]: Failed to start Remote 
> desktop service (VNC).
> May 25 12:31:13 homebase.home.htt systemd[1]: Unit 
> vncserver@:3.service entered failed state.
> May 25 12:31:13 homebase.home.htt systemd[1]: vncserver@:3.service 
> failed.
>
>
> Thanks for all help.
>
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