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Re: VNC Broken in Trusty?

 

The issue seems to be caused by this bug.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-session/+bug/1274013


On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 1:09 PM, William Van Hevelingen <wvan13@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> I've been experimenting with Trusty too see what breakage is in store for
> us with the new LTS. So far I'm happy to report that my
> NFS/Autofs/OpenLDAP/SSSD environment is working as expected.
>
> I'm having some issues with VNC though. It appears gnome-session-fallback
> is now a transitional package for gnome-session-flashback and my
> .vnc/xstartup from 12.04 no longer works under 14.04.
>
> The logs have:
>
> ** (process:19927): WARNING **: software acceleration check failed: Child
> process exited with code 1
> ** (gnome-session:19927): CRITICAL **: We failed, but the fail whale is
> dead. Sorry....
>
> My .vnc/xstartup file looks like this:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> # Uncomment the following two lines for normal desktop:
> unset SESSION_MANAGER
> gnome-session --session=gnome-fallback &
> [ -x /etc/vnc/xstartup ] && exec /etc/vnc/xstartup
> [ -r /u/blkperl/.Xresources ] && xrdb /u/blkperl/.Xresources
> xsetroot -solid grey
>
> A quick google search shows others are having the same issues on Saucy. My
> Saucy test box also had the same issue.
>
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> William Van Hevelingen
>
>
>


-- 
Thanks,
William

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