Bug 407165 - VNC installation not possible (at least with NET CD)
Summary: VNC installation not possible (at least with NET CD)
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 389386
Alias: None
Product: openSUSE 11.0
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Installation (show other bugs)
Version: Final
Hardware: i386 openSUSE 11.0
: P5 - None : Major (vote)
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Assignee: Stefan Dirsch
QA Contact: Jiri Srain
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Reported: 2008-07-08 14:45 UTC by Thomas Schallar
Modified: 2008-09-15 12:03 UTC (History)
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Found By: Corporate Interoperability Test
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Description Thomas Schallar 2008-07-08 14:45:02 UTC 
Hello!

I'm using openSUSE-11.0-DVD-i386.iso to install openSuSE 11.0 on a hardware, that works flawlessly with SuSE 10.2 and 10.3: Asus P5K-VM, Intel Q9450 4x2.6GHz, 4x2GB DDR2-800 Corsair DHX RAM, 3Ware 9650SE-8LPML SATA2-RAID5, 8x1TB Seagate.

Since many years we install SuSE Linux by network (PXE+HTTP) using the linuxrc options:

  vnc=1 vncpassword=test1234

I tried that with the network installation CD. After a while, the VNC screen becomes available. When I connect with RealVNC to <ip>:1 I see a distorted picture of YaST. When I move the mouse cursor, YaST crashes, the VNC windows closes and the red error text screen shows up on the machine.

I tried several times, downgraded to 1x2GB RAM, disabled the memory remap function, tried ACPI etc. off. Always the same.  :-(

The very same procedure worked for us since SuSE 9-dot-something...

regards from Vienna,
Thomas Schallar
Comment 1 Robert Vojcik 2008-07-18 10:19:19 UTC 
Hello, 

could you provide yast2 logs from installation and some screenshot ?
If you unsure follow:
http://en.opensuse.org/Bugs/YaST

Thanks
Comment 2 Kurt Garloff 2008-09-15 11:52:02 UTC 
As far as I can determine, YaST2 uses Xvnc for vnc installation.
(See common/vnc.sh in yast2-installation.)
Xvnc writes logs to /var/log/YaST2/vncserver.log, which may be useful for
debugging this further.
Comment 4 Stefan Dirsch 2008-09-15 12:03:26 UTC 
This sounds like another duplicate of Bug #389386, which has been fixed by the Driver update feature, i.e. press F6 at the beginning of installation.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 389386 ***