From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031009 Description of problem: On fresh machine install of fedora test 3 Tried to start vncserver for a user. Looked at log and saw that the symbolic link in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 to ../../../../etc/X11/xserver was missing, repaired this by hand and then get the following when trying to start vncserver : //---------------------------------------------------------- [aoleary@muon aoleary]$ vncserver New 'muon.[removed].com:8 (aoleary)' desktop is muon.[removed].com:8 Starting applications specified in /home/aoleary/.vnc/xstartup Log file is /home/aoleary/.vnc/muon.[removed].com:8.log [aoleary@muon aoleary]$ cat /home/aoleary/.vnc/muon.[removed].com:8.log Xvnc version 4.0b4 - built Sep 19 2003 09:32:30 Underlying X server release 40300000, The XFree86 Project, Inc Thu Oct 23 16:32:06 2003 vncext: VNC extension running! vncext: Listening for VNC connections on port 5908 vncext: Listening for HTTP connections on port 5808 vncext: created VNC server for screen 0 Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/, removing from li st! [aoleary@muon aoleary]$ //---------------------------------------------------------- Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): vnc-4.0-0.beta4.3 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. fresh install of fedora test 3 on blank machine 2. create user 3. call /usr/bin/vncserver Actual Results: See description Expected Results: Currently using Redhat 9 on another machine and vncserver works fine (vn c version vnc-3.3.3r2-47 Additional info:
That symbolic link (which is present for me) is owned by XFree86.
So why exactly is this bug reassigned to XFree86? I don't see the problem. On a fresh OS install or upgrade from a supported distribution release, the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xserver symbolic link is present. What is the problem?