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  • problems with tigervnc-server (and tightvnc)

    From Mike Scott@21:1/5 to All on Tue Sep 28 11:36:42 2021
    Not my week... this is on a pi4, fbsd 13.0 p4

    I've installed the tigervnc-server package. But running vncsession
    always fails with the message 'Failure daemonizing'.

    Looking at auth.log, I see messages like

    in openpam_parse_chain(): /usr/local/etc/pam.d/tigervnc(3) missing or
    invalid facility

    Checking that file shows a list of pam_XXXX.so files, none of which
    (except pam_unix) seems to exist.


    Would I be correct in suspecting that the listed .so files are
    linux-specific, and the package won't actually run on freebsd? Has
    anyone used it?


    (Out of curiosity, I've tried removing or using an empty 'tigervnc' file
    or copying the "other" file to tigervnc, but auth.log simply notes
    '...exited with status 2'. Unsurprising.)



    An alternative, tightvnc, seems to have a memory allocation problem on
    the pi (fine on i386 though):
    Xalloc error.... Tail corrupt in Xfree().....


    Is there a vnc server that /does/ work on the pi?


    Thanks.

    --
    Mike Scott
    Harlow, England

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  • From Lowell Gilbert@21:1/5 to Mike Scott on Wed Sep 29 16:29:59 2021
    Mike Scott <usenet.16@scottsonline.org.uk.invalid> writes:

    Not my week... this is on a pi4, fbsd 13.0 p4

    I've installed the tigervnc-server package. But running vncsession
    always fails with the message 'Failure daemonizing'.

    Don't run vncsession directly for normal use. Start a server with
    vncserver and connect with (I think; haven't got it installed at the
    moment) vncclient.

    --
    Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer
    http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/

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