VNC server failed to start CentOS
- by Shaun
I followed a tutorial on how to install and get VNCserver to run on CentOS 6 (since freenx isnt supported yet) and I keep getting
Starting VNC server: 1:user [FAILED]
How do I figure out whats going on here? Im new to Linux/CentOS and im trying to get RDP going so I can step away from SSH as much as possible (you know us Windows users love our pretty GUI's). So, where is the error log at and how do I find it? Or maybe someone else has experienced this and knows the solution based on the simple error given?
After running in debug mode, here is my error
+ . /etc/init.d/functions
++ TEXTDOMAIN=initscripts
++ umask 022
++ PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin
++ export PATH
++ '[' -z '' ']'
++ COLUMNS=80
++ '[' -z '' ']'
+++ /sbin/consoletype
++ CONSOLETYPE=pty
++ '[' -f /etc/sysconfig/i18n -a -z '' -a -z '' ']'
++ . /etc/profile.d/lang.sh
++ unset LANGSH_SOURCED
++ '[' -z '' ']'
++ '[' -f /etc/sysconfig/init ']'
++ . /etc/sysconfig/init
+++ BOOTUP=color
+++ RES_COL=60
+++ MOVE_TO_COL='echo -en \033[60G'
+++ SETCOLOR_SUCCESS='echo -en \033[0;32m'
+++ SETCOLOR_FAILURE='echo -en \033[0;31m'
+++ SETCOLOR_WARNING='echo -en \033[0;33m'
+++ SETCOLOR_NORMAL='echo -en \033[0;39m'
+++ PROMPT=yes
+++ AUTOSWAP=no
+++ ACTIVE_CONSOLES='/dev/tty[1-6]'
+++ SINGLE=/sbin/sushell
++ '[' pty = serial ']'
++ __sed_discard_ignored_files='/\(~\|\.bak\|\.orig\|\.rpmnew\|\.rpmorig\|\.rpmsave\)$/d'
+ '[' -r /etc/sysconfig/vncservers ']'
+ . /etc/sysconfig/vncservers
++ VNCSERVERS='1:larry 2:moe 3:curly'
++ VNCSERVERARGS[1]='-geometry 800x600'
++ VNCSERVERARGS[2]='-geometry 640x480'
++ VNCSERVERARGS[3]='-geometry 640x480'
+ prog='VNC server'
+ RETVAL=0
+ case "$1" in
+ start
+ '[' 0 '!=' 0 ']'
+ . /etc/sysconfig/network
++ NETWORKING=yes
++ HOSTNAME=vps.binaryvisionaries.com
++ DOMAINNAME=server.name
++ GATEWAYDEV=venet0
++ NETWORKING_IPV6=yes
++ IPV6_DEFAULTDEV=venet0
+ '[' yes = no ']'
+ '[' -x /usr/bin/vncserver ']'
+ '[' -x /usr/bin/Xvnc ']'
+ echo -n 'Starting VNC server: '
Starting VNC server: + RETVAL=0
+ '[' '!' -d /tmp/.X11-unix ']'
+ for display in '${VNCSERVERS}'
+ SERVS=1
+ echo -n '1:larry '
1:larry + DISP=1
+ USER=larry
+ VNCUSERARGS='-geometry 800x600'
+ runuser -l larry -c 'cd ~larry && [ -r .vnc/passwd ] && vncserver :1 -geometry 800x600'
+ RETVAL=1
+ '[' 1 -eq 0 ']'
+ break
+ '[' -z 1 ']'
+ '[' 1 -eq 0 ']'
+ failure 'vncserver start'
+ local rc=1
+ '[' color '!=' verbose -a -z '' ']'
+ echo_failure
+ '[' color = color ']'
+ echo -en '\033[60G'
+ echo -n '['
[+ '[' color = color ']'
+ echo -en '\033[0;31m'
+ echo -n FAILED
FAILED+ '[' color = color ']'
+ echo -en '\033[0;39m'
+ echo -n ']'
]+ echo -ne '\r'
+ return 1
+ '[' -x /usr/bin/plymouth ']'
+ /usr/bin/plymouth --details
+ return 1
+ echo
+ '[' 1 -eq 98 ']'
+ return 1
+ exit 1
