Hi Bob question on getting TurboVNC running

[Stephen Warren]

Perhaps it's trying to tell you to use ssh not telnet:-P

Does TurboVNC run its own X server, or expect to connect to an existing 
console X session and screen-scrape it? If the latter, you'd need to set 
DISPLAY before running it. But since the logs mention "startxfce4" I 
guess it's starting its own session. In that case, I don't think there's 
enough log quoted to diagnose the problem.

On 2/18/25 15:28, Phil Marsh wrote:
> This is Ubuntu 24.04.
> Oddly enough, thor,  my server running Ubuntu 22.04 can start the 
> TurboVNC server (vncserver) from a Telnet window.
> Thanks,
> Phil
> 
> On Tue, Feb 18, 2025 at 2:25 PM Phil Marsh <microcraftx at gmail.com 
> <mailto:microcraftx at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Also, if I start TurboVNC server on a terminal opened at consol (on
>     my local monitor rather than Telnet) TurboVNC server starts and its
>     logfile contains the text at the end:
> 
>     Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server
>     xstartup.turbovnc: Creating new session bus instance:
>     xstartup.turbovnc:   unix:path=/tmp/dbus-
>     XSpMzGYbFQ,guid=3749806eaf5c1e208f48a16467b507d6
>     xstartup.turbovnc: Using 'xubuntu' window manager in
>     xstartup.turbovnc:   /usr/share/xsessions/xubuntu.desktop
>     xstartup.turbovnc: Executing /etc/X11/Xsession "startxfce4"
> 
>     I'm wondering why TurboVNC server fails to start in a Telnet
>     terminal (using this over OpenVPN when I'm remote)?
>     Thanks!
>     Phil
> 
>     On Tue, Feb 18, 2025 at 2:20 PM Phil Marsh <microcraftx at gmail.com
>     <mailto:microcraftx at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>         Hi Bob,
>         I was wondering if you or anyone else could kindly help me with
>         a problem using TurboVNC.
>         If I log into my machine using Telnet and try to start TurboVNC
>         from the command line it fails. The logfile is attached.
>         I think these are the important lines showing the failure:
> 
>         Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server
>         xstartup.turbovnc: Creating new session bus instance:
>         xstartup.turbovnc:   unix:path=/tmp/dbus-
>         ATPDyrqwtE,guid=fa8e0d6a693c79d3511ff9b167b50124
>         xstartup.turbovnc: The session desktop file for the default
>         window manager was
>         xstartup.turbovnc:   not found at:
>         xstartup.turbovnc:   /usr/share/xsessions/gnome.desktop
>         xstartup.turbovnc:   /usr/share/xsessions/ubuntu.desktop
> 
>         Thanks!
>         Phil
>