VNC – The first attempt to start Xvnc failed
At some point I was struggling with the strange issue. It came out of nowhere. VNC simply stopped working. Eventually, it turned out that reason was completely awkward. Missing directory on LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Yes, I know how it sounds, but it’s true. You can try it by yourself
> setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH /some_fake_location > vncserver -geometry 800x600 WARNING: The first attempt to start Xvnc failed, possibly because the font catalog is not properly configured. Attempting to determine an appropriate font path for this system and restart Xvnc using that font path ... Could not start Xvnc. Xvnc TigerVNC 1.3.1 - built Nov 16 2016 13:38:44 Copyright (C) 1999-2011 TigerVNC Team and many others (see README.txt) See http://www.tigervnc.org for information on TigerVNC. Underlying X server release 11702000, The X.Org Foundation Wed May 8 23:59:59 2019 vncext: VNC extension running! vncext: Listening for VNC connections on all interface(s), port 5902 vncext: Listening for HTTP connections on all interface(s), port 5802 vncext: created VNC server for screen 0 (EE) (EE) Backtrace: (EE) 0: /usr/bin/Xvnc (xorg_backtrace+0x55) [0x5bb935] (EE) 1: /usr/bin/Xvnc (0x400000+0x1bf7a9) [0x5bf7a9] (EE) 2: /usr/lib64/libpthread.so.0 (0x2b8c5b8ad000+0xf370) [0x2b8c5b8bc370] (EE) 3: /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x2b8c59945000+0x5f79) [0x2b8c5994af79] (EE) 4: /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x2b8c59945000+0x86db) [0x2b8c5994d6db] ... ... (EE) Segmentation fault at address 0x2b8c59b65de0 (EE) Fatal server error: (EE) Caught signal 11 (Segmentation fault). Server aborting (EE)
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