Just tried to install an x86_64 KVM guest with rawhide-20090116 and "console=ttyS0 vnc method=..." cmdline Failed with: Running anaconda 11.5.0.8, the Fedora system installer - please wait... /usr/lib64/python2.6/md5.py:8: DeprecationWarning: functions overriding warnings.showwarning() must support the 'line' argument DeprecationWarning, 2) /usr/lib64/python2.6/sets.py:85: DeprecationWarning: functions overriding warnings.showwarning() must support the 'line' argument stacklevel=2) 12:49:40 Starting VNC... 12:49:40 Could not start the VNC server. Aborting. install exited abnormally [1/1]
Ah, is this the switch to tightvnc? https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/TightVNC From: http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/mash/rawhide-20090116/logs/x86_64.log Package vnc-libs is obsoleted by tightvnc-server-module, trying to install tightvnc-server-module-1.5.0-0.9.20081120svn3200.fc11.x86_64 instead Package vnc-server is obsoleted by tightvnc-server-module, trying to install tightvnc-server-module-1.5.0-0.9.20081120svn3200.fc11.x86_64 instead
Yep, looks like that's the problem. I think it must be because we're no longer grabbing the X extention module though we are grabbing the other packages and files. This should be fixed in the next version of anaconda.
You should install tightvnc-server package instead of vnc-libs and vnc-server packages in rawhide.
That's what he did, see here: http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=anaconda.git;a=commitdiff;h=60eb28
Working fine for me with 20090120 rawhide
(In reply to comment #4) > That's what he did, see here: > > http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=anaconda.git;a=commitdiff;h=60eb28 Well, this commit is right but you don't have to include tightvnc-server-module package. It contains libvnc.so module to Xorg and depends on xorg-x11-server-Xorg. tightvnc-server-module is not needed for "raw" Xvnc. You can probably save some MB when you exclude it from install root.