Hi Bob question on getting TurboVNC running

[Phil Marsh]

Hi Stephen,
Thanks. However, my other server's TurboVNC starts OK using a Telnet
terminal window.
Thanks,
Phil

On Tue, Feb 18, 2025 at 4:19 PM Stephen Warren <
swarren-tag-list-nclug at wwwdotorg.org> wrote:

> 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
> >
>
>
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