On 29/12/10 18:55, Dimstar / Dominique Leuenberger wrote:

Hi Richard,

On Wed, 2010-12-29 at 18:31 +0000, Richard (MQ) wrote:

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Am I doing something stupid? Stupid is a harsh word... let's call it "different than expected"

:-)

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I have 11.4 MS5 installed on a reasonably powerful old box, using more-or-less the defaults. X runs OK, but I cannot start a vnc server:

# zypper se vncserver suggests LibVNCServer

Maybe be a bit less specific in your searches... more hits might give a better overview of what is needed: zypper se vnc

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# zypper in LibVNCServer seems happy

lib* packages per definition do not sound like I would need / want to install them on my own. Sounds more like system libraries that are needed by some other stuff...

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but then as user:

~> vncserver -geometry 1024x600 -depth 24 vncserver: couldn't find "Xvnc" on your PATH.

missing xvnc :) sounds like zypper search vnc from above lists one package matching rather well: --> xorg-x11-Xvnc

arguably, the package installing vncserver (tightvnc, according to cnf) should have a dependency to xorg-X11-Xvnc... that would be a bug to be reported in bugzilla imho. On the other hand, checking here to install tightvnc wants to trigger the install.. so it might well be that your system is just a little bit 'inconsistent'. Maybe try "zypper verify" to see what this spits?

On a healthy system, it should say: # zypper verify Loading repository data... Reading installed packages...

Dependencies of all installed packages are satisfied.

# zypper verify Loading repository data... Reading installed packages... Problem: nothing provides xorg-x11-Xvnc needed by tightvnc-1.3.10-1.6.i586 Solution 1: deinstallation of tightvnc-1.3.10-1.6.i586 Solution 2: break tightvnc by ignoring some of its dependencies Choose from above solutions by number or cancel [1/2/c] (c): I used Stefan's suggestion and installed xorg-x11-Xvnc from 11.3 # zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.3/repo/oss/ 11.3-OSS # zypper in --from 11.3-OSS xorg-x11-Xvnc # zypper mr -d 11.3-OSS (would adding -d to the zypper ar command have achieved this in one fewer step?) Now the vnc server works, and once I remembered to put a hole in the firewall all is well. Also # zypper verify returns "Dependencies of all installed packages are satisfied."

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Is this me or is it a bug? Nothing obvious on Bugzilla nor on most-annoying-bugs.

Thanks all for your help, not sure why searching bugzilla / 11.4 for "vnc" didn't pick up Bug #660208? No, it wasn't the result of "Christmas Cheer confusion" this time... I reckon that this belongs in "most annoying bugs" ?

If you would make your life much easier, you'd probably have started yast, selected Remote Administration (VNC), selected 'enable' and the module would have suggested to install xorg-x11-Xvnc for you... and rightly just offered to do so :)

Yes, I could have tried that - but I assume I'd still have hit Bug #660208 Cheers Richard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org