Bug 541218

Summary: openSUSE11.2: VNC installation is failing
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 11.2 Reporter: LTC BugProxy <bugproxy>
Component: InstallationAssignee: Steffen Winterfeldt <snwint>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P3 - Medium CC: ceo, forgotten_QPz6RCyXU0, jsrain, sndirsch
Version: Milestone 7   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PowerPC-64   
OS: All   
URL: http://
See Also: https://bugzilla.linux.ibm.com/show_bug.cgi?id=56147
Whiteboard:
Found By: Third Party Developer/Partner Services Priority:
Business Priority: Blocker: ---
Marketing QA Status: --- IT Deployment: ---
Attachments: YaST2 log
dmesg from the boot

Description LTC BugProxy 2009-09-22 21:40:44 UTC 
=Comment: #0=================================================
PAVAN NAREGUNDI <pavan.naregundi@in.ibm.com> - 

YaST2 log

On opensuse11.2 Milestone7 VNC installation is failing. However installation is continuing in
NCURSES medium.

I could see these logs in y2start.log file

=========================
Stage [call]: Evaluate medium selection...
Stage [call]: ============================
	|-- Medium Textmode (ncurses) has been selected
	|-- Medium VNC has been selected
Stage [call]: Check selected medium...
Stage [call]: ========================
	|-- Wished medium is: VNC
	|-- Medium VNC not available, falling back to ncurses
	|-- Selected medium is: NCURSES
==========================

BUILD: openSUSE-NET-ppc-Build0271-Media.iso

Attaching the yast logs
=Comment: #1=================================================
PAVAN NAREGUNDI <pavan.naregundi@in.ibm.com> - 

dmesg from the boot

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Hello Novell,

searching through the Novell Bugzilla, we found the bug #533551 that seems to be similar to this
issue here, although it doesn't contain much information and was closed as dup of another bug which
we cannot access (Novell bug #530111).

Also, FWIW, the same problem has been also seen in the previous Milestone 6.

Please let us know in case you need any additional info.

Thanks.
Comment 1 LTC BugProxy 2009-09-22 21:40:53 UTC 
Created attachment 319396 [details]
YaST2 log
Comment 2 LTC BugProxy 2009-09-22 21:40:56 UTC 
Created attachment 319397 [details]
dmesg from the boot
Comment 3 LTC BugProxy 2009-10-06 07:11:33 UTC 
------- Comment From pavan.naregundi@in.ibm.com 2009-10-06 03:03 EDT-------
This issue is still seen with openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 8 Release.

Novell, Any updates on this issue?
Comment 4 Forgotten User QPz6RCyXU0 2009-12-08 16:30:15 UTC 
This issue is still present in 11.2 final, identical behavior. What's interesting, this seems to have worked few weeks ago, maybe something changed in the repos.

grep -i vnc y2start.log
        |-- export VNC="1"
        |-- export VNCPassword="<your-password>"
        |-- export vnc="1"
        |-- export vncpassword="REMOVED_FOR_THIS_BUG"
        |-- No Xvnc server installed -> Medium VNC disabled
        |-- Medium VNC has been selected
        |-- Wished medium is: VNC
        |-- Medium VNC not available, falling back to ncurses

Same thing happens with both 64 bit and 32 bit releases. I'm quite certain the options we use are ok, since the same identical setup we've been replicating since 10.2 or so.
Comment 5 Jiri Srain 2009-12-09 09:07:31 UTC 
The inst-sys does not contain /usr/bin/Xvnc (my installed 11.2 system has it) even though I added usevnc=1 at kernel command line. Steffen, please, have a look what went wrong.
Comment 6 Stefan Dirsch 2009-12-09 09:43:04 UTC 
Another dup.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 530111 ***
Comment 7 David Salgado 2010-03-10 20:28:39 UTC 
Workaround
Hi, seeing this problem I got sshd up (rcsshd start), assigned a root password (passwd root) and copied the Xvnc binary from an Open SuSE 11.2 already installed system (scp -Cp /usr/bin/Xvnc root@ip_you_are_installing_to:/usr/bin/)
done this i invoked yast (/sbin/yast) and Voilá i recieved the message from VNC at ip_you_are_installing_to display :1
In my case:
--------------------------

inst-sys:~ # ls /usr/bin/X*
Xorg  Xvnc
inst-sys:~ # /sbin/yast
unicode_start skipped on /dev/pts/0
Probing connected terminal...

Initializing virtual console...

Found an xterm terminal on /dev/pts/0 (97 columns x 26 lines).
Please supply a config file

starting VNC server...
A log file will be written to: /var/log/YaST2/vncserver.log ...

***
***           You can connect to 192.168.100.27, display :1 now with vncviewer
***           Or use a Java capable browser on  http://192.168.100.27:5801/
***

(When YaST2 is finished, close your VNC viewer and return to this window.)

*** Starting YaST2 ***