Bugzilla – Bug 541218
openSUSE11.2: VNC installation is failing
Last modified: 2010-03-10 20:28:39 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 ================================================= 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.
Created attachment 319396 [details] YaST2 log
Created attachment 319397 [details] dmesg from the boot
------- 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?
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.
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.
Another dup. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 530111 ***
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 ***