tightvnc trouble

[Rick Stevens]

On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 10:19 -0500, sky2371 at aol.com wrote:
> 
> I am having trouble getting tightvnc to start with Fedora
> 8. I installed tightvnc from an rpm file then added the following
> lines
> to /etc/sysconfig/vncservers 
> 
> 
>  VNCSERVERS="1:vncuser"
> VNCSERVERARGS[1]="-geometry 1024x768"
> 
> When I try to start the service it complains something about the font
> path
> as shown in the console output below.
> 
> Thanks in advance for your help!
> 
> 
> root at nsite-tp-6 sysconfig]# service vncserver start
> 
> Starting VNC server: 1:vncuser WARNING: initlog is deprecated and will
> be removed in a future release
> Couldn't start Xvnc; trying default font path.
> Please set correct fontPath in the vncserver script.
> Couldn't start Xvnc process.
> Couldn't open RGB_DB '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb'
> 22/01/08 09:25:48 Xvnc version TightVNC-1.3.9
> 22/01/08 09:25:48 Copyright (C) 2000-2007 TightVNC Group
> 22/01/08 09:25:48 Copyright (C) 1999 AT&T Laboratories Cambridge
> 22/01/08 09:25:48 All Rights Reserved.
> 22/01/08 09:25:48 See http://www.tightvnc.com/ for information on
> TightVNC
> 22/01/08 09:25:48 Desktop name 'X' (nsite-tp-6:1)
> 22/01/08 09:25:48 Protocol versions supported: 3.3, 3.7, 3.8, 3.7t,
> 3.8t
> 22/01/08 09:25:48 Listening for VNC connections on TCP port 5901
> 22/01/08 09:25:48 Listening for HTTP connections on TCP port 5801
> 22/01/08 09:25:48   URL http://nsite-tp-6:5801
> _FontTransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2
> failed to set default font path 'unix/:7100'
> Fatal server error:
> could not open default font 'fixed'
> Couldn't open RGB_DB '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb'
> 22/01/08 09:25:49 Xvnc version TightVNC-1.3.9
> 22/01/08 09:25:49 Copyright (C) 2000-2007 TightVNC Group
> 22/01/08 09:25:49 Copyright (C) 1999 AT&T Laboratories Cambridge
> 22/01/08 09:25:49 All Rights Reserved.
> 22/01/08 09:25:49 See http://www.tightvnc.com/ for information on
> TightVNC
> 22/01/08 09:25:49 Desktop name 'X' (nsite-tp-6:1)
> 22/01/08 09:25:49 Protocol versions supported: 3.3, 3.7, 3.8, 3.7t,
> 3.8t
> 22/01/08 09:25:49 Listening for VNC connections on TCP port 5901
> 22/01/08 09:25:49 Listening for HTTP connections on TCP port 5801
> 22/01/08 09:25:49   URL http://nsite-tp-6:5801
> 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'

Try making sure xfs is running on your machine (service xfs start).
TightVNC is trying to talk to the font server to get the fonts.

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