Re: Unable to start tightvncserver

[Foss User <fossist@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 3:03 AM, Eric Gerlach
<egerlach@feds.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 12:07:57AM +0530, Foss User wrote:
>> fossist@squeeze:~$ ps -aef | grep 4847
>> fossist     4987  3680  0 00:02 pts/3    00:00:00 grep 4847
>>
>> fossist@squeeze:~$ netstat -na | grep tcp | grep 59
>> fossist@squeeze:~$
>
> If you run the ps command again at this point, is it still running (btw, pgrep
> is helpful for this type of command)?  Have you check the vncserver logs (I
> can't recall off the top of my head where they are... maybe ~/.vnc)?  I assume
> you have network interfaces up and running.

Yes, I have included the VNC server logs in my original post. If you
see in the logs, it is unable to find some font directories and thus
ignoring those paths. Could it be a reason for the problem?

Here are the logs again for your convenience:

fossist@squeeze:~$ cat .vnc/squeeze\:1.log
22/01/10 00:01:33 Xvnc version TightVNC-1.3.9
22/01/10 00:01:33 Copyright (C) 2000-2007 TightVNC Group
22/01/10 00:01:33 Copyright (C) 1999 AT&T Laboratories Cambridge
22/01/10 00:01:33 All Rights Reserved.
22/01/10 00:01:33 See http://www.tightvnc.com/ for information on TightVNC
22/01/10 00:01:33 Desktop name 'X' (squeeze:1)
22/01/10 00:01:33 Protocol versions supported: 3.3, 3.7, 3.8, 3.7t, 3.8t
22/01/10 00:01:33 Listening for VNC connections on TCP port 5901
Font directory '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc' not found - ignoring
Font directory '/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic' not found - ignoring
Font directory '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic' not found - ignoring
Font directory '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled' not found - ignoring
Font directory '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled' not found - ignoring
Font directory '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1' not found - ignoring
Font directory '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi' not found - ignoring
Font directory '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi' not found - ignoring