DietPi VNC Server Headless....head wrecked! Topic is solved

[feardamhan]

Tried that and ss -alnp | grep Xvnc-core still returns nada

[Joulinar]

but what is the output of the manual start? for me the last lines looks like this

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Running applications in /root/.vnc/xstartup

VNC Server catchphrase: "Spider state mercury. Carrot diet Henry."
             signature: 38-24-c0-46-a4-10-d0-34

Log file is /root/.vnc/DietPi3:1.log
New desktop is DietPi3:1 (192.168.0.12:1)

[feardamhan]

'/usr/local/bin/vncserver start' does not appear to restart the vnc server service at all. Running it does not error out but it returns no output

[Joulinar]

yes that's correct. ths command did not restart the service. It will start the server manually only. Anyhow it should give anything back. For me it's quite a long output. Still something seems to be strange on your VNC installation. can you do ps -ef|grep vnc and post the entire output

[feardamhan]

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root@raspberrypi-emby:~# ps -ef|grep vnc
root       492     1  0 19:11 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/vncserver-x11-serviced -fg
root       494     1  0 19:11 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/vncserver-virtuald -fg
root       522   492  0 19:11 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/vncserver-x11-core -service
root      1029   949  0 19:12 pts/0    00:00:00 grep vnc

[Joulinar]

that's all?? I have way more processes running

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root@DietPi3:~# ps -ef|grep vnc
root       430     1  0 20:17 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/vncserver-x11-serviced -fg
root       433     1  0 20:17 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/vncserver-virtuald -fg
root       444   430  0 20:17 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/vncserver-x11-core -service
root       635     1  0 20:17 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/vncserver :1 -geometry 2160x1440 -depth 16
root       637   635  4 20:17 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/Xvnc-core :1 -auth /root/.Xauthority -pn -geometry 2160x1440 -depth 16
root       654   635  0 20:17 ?        00:00:00 /bin/sh /etc/vnc/xstartup
root       681     1  3 20:17 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/vncserverui virtual 13
root       695   681  1 20:17 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/vncserverui -statusicon 5
root       857   777  0 20:18 pts/0    00:00:00 grep vnc
root@DietPi3:~#

root@DietPi3:~#

Do you have a spare SD card and could do a fresh install? Something seems to be wrong

[feardamhan]

yup, thats all of it

This was a fresh install about 60 mins ago. Wiped the SD card, included the RealVNC installation in the dietpi.txt that was on the SD card before first boot. Literally nothing else done since.

The first install also includes
emby
mariadb
vim
samba client
syncthing

I might strip back the rest, and literally just do realVNC (and manually via dietpi-software) and see what happens, in case there is some weird issues during install.

[Joulinar]

Currently it looks like there is no xsession started for VNC

[feardamhan]

Ok. So a fresh install, cutting the dietpi.txt for first boot to the bare bones of just the IP address required, plus a manual install of realVPN via dietpi-software, got my ps -ef | grep vnc to display this

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root@dietpi-server1:~# ps -ef | grep vnc
root       495     1  0 21:00 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/vncserver-virtuald -fg
root       504     1  0 21:00 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/vncserver-x11-serviced -fg
root       529   504  0 21:00 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/vncserver-x11-core -service
root       682     1  0 21:00 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/vncserver :1 -geometry 1280x720 -depth 16
root       684   682  0 21:00 ?        00:00:01 /usr/bin/Xvnc-core :1 -auth /root/.Xauthority -pn -geometry 1280x720 -depth 16
root       697   682  0 21:00 ?        00:00:00 /bin/sh /etc/vnc/xstartup
root       732     1  0 21:00 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/vncserverui virtual 15
root       755   732  0 21:00 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/vncserverui -statusicon 5
root      1260  1188  0 21:20 pts/0    00:00:00 grep vnc

Also 'ss -alnp | grep Xvnc-core' looks better

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ss -alnp | grep Xvnc-core
u_str  LISTEN  0        0                                     /tmp/.X11-unix/X1 15363                                                   * 0                      users:(("Xvnc-core",pid=684,fd=3))
u_str  LISTEN  0        0                        /tmp/.vnc-0/Xvnc.CtrlComms.1.0 15389                                                   * 0                      users:(("Xvnc-core",pid=684,fd=9))
tcp    LISTEN  0        5                                               0.0.0.0:5901                                              0.0.0.0:*                      users:(("Xvnc-core",pid=684,fd=7))
tcp    LISTEN  0        128                                             0.0.0.0:6001                                              0.0.0.0:*                      users:(("Xvnc-core",pid=684,fd=1))
tcp    LISTEN  0        5                                                  [::]:5901                                                 [::]:*                      users:(("Xvnc-core",pid=684,fd=6))
tcp    LISTEN  0        128                                                [::]:6001                                                 [::]:*                      users:(("Xvnc-core",pid=684,fd=0))

Still can't connect tho. Same error of 'Cannot currently show the desktop'

[Joulinar]

Ok that looks good now. You should be able to connect using IP:1 or IP:5901. Thats the port the vnc is running on as you can see on your output above.