Bug 29487

Created attachment 12931 [details]
The HOWTO.md file from my install

rpm -q -f /usr/share/doc/tigervnc-server/HOWTO.md
tigervnc-server-1.11.0-4.mga8

That's in the core release repo. So the question is why is it not present
on that installation?

CC: (none) => davidwhodgins

Thanks Dave for the HOWTO bug attachment.
Herbert, can you report the result of following it?

I am puzzled by the contradictory:
> Active: inactive (dead)          and
> vncserver@:2.service: Succeeded
Can you comment on that, Dave?

As for the missing file:
 $ urpmf /usr/share/doc/tigervnc/HOWTO.md
yields nothing.
 $ urpmq -l tigervnc | grep HOWTO
also yields nothing.
 $ urpmq -l tigervnc | grep /doc/
/usr/share/doc/tigervnc
/usr/share/doc/tigervnc/LICENCE.TXT
/usr/share/doc/tigervnc/README.rst
Could the last be helpful?

Assigning to Thierry who mostly deals with tigervnc, and committed 'package README.rst'. There seem to be two problem here:
- starting it
- the HOWTO.

Assignee: bugsquad => thierry.vignaud
CC: (none) => lewyssmith

I haven't tested vnc since Mageia 7, so did some cleanup first.
- used urpme to remove all packages shown by "rpm -qa|grep vnc".
Used "systemctl disable vncserver@:1.service" which removed
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 42 Sep 24 16:21 '/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/vncserver@:1.service' -> '/usr/lib/systemd/system/vncserver@.service'
In /home/tester (the account I use for the testing), deleted ~/.vnc
Rebooted, just to ensure a normal startup as far as vnc is concerned.

# urpmi tigervnc tigervnc-server
which also pulled in vnc-server-common

Appended two lines to /etc/tigervnc/vncserver-config-defaults
session=Plasma
geometry=1024x768

Appended one line to /etc/tigervnc/vncserver.users
:1=tester

I noticed that the package vnc-server-common still has an init.d file, so even
though it's not in the instructions, ran
# chkconfig vncserver on
# systemctl start vncserver.service

Used "su -l tester" to become the tester user, ran vncpassd and set it's
password.

As root, enabled and started the server for the user with
# systemctl start vncserver@:1
# systemctl start vncserver@:1

Back as the tester user ran "vncviewer localhost:1", and it started Plasma.

[tester@x3 ~]$ systemctl status vncserver.service
● vncserver.service - LSB: Start TigerVNC server at boot time
     Loaded: loaded (/etc/rc.d/init.d/vncserver; generated)
     Active: active (exited) since Fri 2021-09-24 16:15:28 EDT; 28min ago
       Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
        CPU: 15ms

Warning: some journal files were not opened due to insufficient permissions.
[tester@x3 ~]$ systemctl status vncserver@:1.service
● vncserver@:1.service - Remote desktop service (VNC)
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/vncserver@.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
     Active: active (running) since Fri 2021-09-24 16:21:21 EDT; 22min ago
   Main PID: 4811 (vncsession)
      Tasks: 1 (limit: 19119)
     Memory: 452.0K
        CPU: 10ms
     CGroup: /system.slice/system-vncserver.slice/vncserver@:1.service
             ‣ 4811 /usr/sbin/vncsession tester :1

Warning: some journal files were not opened due to insufficient permissions.

So it works for me, though I haven't confirmed if the instructions should be
modified to add the "chkconfig vncserver on" and
"systemctl start vncserver.service".

Oops, copied the wrong line. The enable should have been ...
# systemctl enable vncserver@:1