I want to install TigerVNC on my freshly installed CentOS 7 server, version centos-release-7-4.1708.el7.centos.x86_64.
So besides other tutorials I've tried already, I followed the Red Hat guide. However with variable error messages depending on the tutorial I never got the service to start. The following is exactly what I did on a new installation of CentOS 7:
yum install tigervnc-server
cp /usr/lib/systemd/system/[email protected] /etc/systemd/system/[email protected]
vi /etc/systemd/system/[email protected]
initial file content:
[Unit]
Description=Remote desktop service (VNC)
After=syslog.target network.target
[Service]
Type=forking
User=<USER>
# Clean any existing files in /tmp/.X11-unix environment
ExecStartPre=-/usr/bin/vncserver -kill %i
ExecStart=/usr/bin/vncserver %i
PIDFile=/home/<USER>/.vnc/%H%i.pid
ExecStop=-/usr/bin/vncserver -kill %i
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
file content after edit:
[Unit]
Description=Remote desktop service (VNC)
After=syslog.target network.target
[Service]
Type=forking
User=root
# Clean any existing files in /tmp/.X11-unix environment
ExecStartPre=-/usr/bin/vncserver -kill %i
ExecStart=/usr/bin/vncserver %i
PIDFile=/home/root/.vnc/%H%i.pid
ExecStop=-/usr/bin/vncserver -kill %i
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
Instructions after file edit:
systemctl daemon-reload
su - root
vncpasswd
systemctl start vncserver@:1.service
Job for vncserver@:1.service failed because a timeout was exceeded. See "systemctl status vncserver@:1.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
[root@localhost ~]# systemctl status vncserver@:1.service
● vncserver@:1.service - Remote desktop service (VNC)
Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/[email protected]; disabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: failed (Result: timeout) since Wed 2018-01-03 09:00:17 UTC; 22s ago
Process: 2045 ExecStart=/usr/bin/vncserver %i (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Process: 2040 ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/vncserver -kill %i (code=exited, status=2)
Jan 03 08:58:50 localhost vncserver[2045]: New 'localhost:1 (root)' desktop is localhost:1
Jan 03 08:58:50 localhost vncserver[2045]: Creating default startup script /root/.vnc/xstartup
Jan 03 08:58:50 localhost vncserver[2045]: Creating default config /root/.vnc/config
Jan 03 08:58:50 localhost vncserver[2045]: Starting applications specified in /root/.vnc/xstartup
Jan 03 08:58:50 localhost vncserver[2045]: Log file is /root/.vnc/localhost:1.log
Jan 03 08:58:50 localhost systemd[1]: PID file /home/root/.vnc/localhost:1.pid not readable (y...art.
Jan 03 09:00:17 localhost systemd[1]: vncserver@:1.service start operation timed out. Terminating.
Jan 03 09:00:17 localhost systemd[1]: Failed to start Remote desktop service (VNC).
Jan 03 09:00:17 localhost systemd[1]: Unit vncserver@:1.service entered failed state.
Jan 03 09:00:17 localhost systemd[1]: vncserver@:1.service failed.
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Does anyone have a clue how I can solve this?
