vncserver not starting today

Robert Moskowitz rgm at htt-consult.com
Tue Jul 22 17:02:02 UTC 2014


OK.  New day, new testing.  I can get IPv4 setup quickly and routing 
right.  Yeah me (with a little help from my friends I got by)!

So I go to start vncserver where I was up to yesterday where I got the 
display wrong and get:

# systemctl start vncserver@:3.service
Job for vncserver@:3.service failed. See 'systemctl status 
vncserver@:3.service' and 'journalctl -xn' for details.

# systemctl -l status vncserver@:3.service
vncserver@:3.service - Remote desktop service (VNC)
    Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/vncserver@:3.service; enabled)
    Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Fri 2010-01-01 00:28:15 
EST; 35s ago
   Process: 952 ExecStart=/sbin/runuser -l rgm -c /usr/bin/vncserver %i  
(code=exited, status=2)
   Process: 949 ExecStartPre=/bin/sh -c /usr/bin/vncserver -kill %i > 
/dev/null 2>&1 || : (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Jan 01 00:28:15 cb2.htt-consult.com systemd[1]: vncserver@:3.service: 
control process exited, code=exited status=2
Jan 01 00:28:15 cb2.htt-consult.com systemd[1]: Failed to start Remote 
desktop service (VNC).
Jan 01 00:28:15 cb2.htt-consult.com systemd[1]: Unit 
vncserver@:3.service entered failed state.

So now what?  It worked yesterday....

I can't find anything I did yesterday that I am not doing today.




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