Bug 1481428

Summary:	Gnome-shell is not starting when accessing the vnc session.
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Reporter:	Ajinkya Patil <ajipatil>
Component:	gnome-shell	Assignee:	Florian Müllner <fmuellner>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Desktop QE <desktop-qa-list>
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Version:	7.4	CC:	ayadav, cww, fmuellner, jgrulich, jwright, mclasen, ptoshniw, tpelka, vchoudha
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Description Ajinkya Patil 2017-08-14 21:12:23 UTC

Description of problem:
Gnome-shell is not starting when vnc service is started with config files, however, vnc works fine when runs manually.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
tigervnc-server-1.8.0-1.el7.x86_64

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1.install RHEL7.4
2.configure vnc
3.take access

Actual results:
Vnc session shows black background

Expected results:
vnc should load the gnome-shell

Additional info:

Comment 8 Joe Wright 2017-09-08 14:51:11 UTC

This issue has also been observed with the root user when using the workaround of starting vncserver from the command line manually. All non-root users work fine with the workaround.

Comment 12 Jan Grulich 2017-10-30 09:02:33 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1506273 ***