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Description of problem: Essentially identical to that described in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1412468 Start vncserver on server machine using documentation in F29 Admin Guide at https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora/f29/system-administrators-guide/infrastructure-services/TigerVNC/#s4-starting-vncserver which seems to contain very similar instructions to start server as the instructions mentioned in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1412468 and the F25 Admin Guide at https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/25/html/System_Administrators_Guide/ch-TigerVNC.html . When I followed these instructions I saw this: $ systemctl start vncserver@:9.service Job for vncserver@:9.service failed because a timeout was exceeded. I found a solution to this problem using https://serverfault.com/questions/837422/tigervnc-session-timeout and https://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?311448-Issue-with-setting-up-VNC-Server-as-service-on-Fedora-24-or-above&s=c93ac2143ba5a452e9ebecd566829618&p=1781244#post1781244 but having solved this problem, I now have the black screen I mentioned in summary above when I do the following steps. Connect to this server using the same host or a remote host with, for example: "vncviewer 10.1.1.1:9" vncviewer client reports in Terminal... "$ vncviewer 10.1.1.1:9 TigerVNC Viewer 64-bit v1.9.0 Built on: 2018-09-25 10:36 Copyright (C) 1999-2018 TigerVNC Team and many others (see README.rst) See http://www.tigervnc.org for information on TigerVNC. Sun Dec 2 14:38:18 2018 DecodeManager: Detected 4 CPU core(s) DecodeManager: Creating 4 decoder thread(s) CConn: connected to host 10.1.1.1 port 5909 CConnection: Server supports RFB protocol version 3.8 CConnection: Using RFB protocol version 3.8 CConnection: Choosing security type VeNCrypt(19) CVeNCrypt: Choosing security type TLSVnc (258) Sun Dec 2 14:38:23 2018 CConn: Using pixel format depth 24 (32bpp) little-endian rgb888 CConn: Using Tight encoding CConn: Enabling continuous updates" ...but the vncviewer window that opens is entirely black. The vncviewer software seems functional (I can use F8 to bring up the menu), but there is nothing within this window except black. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Tried only once in desktop computer running Fedora 29 Workstation from https://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/29/Workstation/x86_64/iso/Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-29-1.2.iso Steps to Reproduce: 1. See description above 2. 3. Actual results: black screen Expected results: desktop environment within vncviewer window Additional info: This was a bug in F25, and https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1412468 was closed with "Fedora 25 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2017-12-12. Fedora 25 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug. If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version. If you are unable to reopen this bug, please file a new report against the current release."
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Fedora 29 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2019-11-26. Fedora 29 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug. If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version. If you are unable to reopen this bug, please file a new report against the current release. If you experience problems, please add a comment to this bug. Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.