{"id":255,"date":"2004-03-22T20:02:39","date_gmt":"2004-03-23T04:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/shared-debian-learning-of-the-day\/"},"modified":"2004-03-22T20:02:39","modified_gmt":"2004-03-23T04:02:39","slug":"shared-debian-learning-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/shared-debian-learning-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Shared Debian Learning of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I tried installing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realvnc.com\/\">VNC<\/a> over the weekend and ran into difficulty. I&#8217;m running the stable release of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.debian.org\">Debian 3.0 (Woody)<\/a>, so I went ahead and pulled that package version of vncserver. <\/p>\n<p>(BTW, it&#8217;s been said a million times before, but I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve raved about it yet. apt-get is really amazing. It&#8217;s definitely one area where this particular linux distribution has Windows beat in ease of use.)<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, back to VNC. Everything installed like a dream as usual, but upon trying to run vncserver, I got &#8220;~\/.vnc : No such file or directory&#8221;. Hmmm, a directory listing showed that the directory had, in fact been created and seemed to have usable permissions. I also tried vncpasswd with the same result. <\/p>\n<p>Frustrated, I searched the VNC user mailing list, found a mention of similar problems, but no solution. I subscribed and posted my question with as much info as I could provide, hoping someone would help out. While I slept, a helpful user named CeBee from the Netherlands gave me the solution. Apparently, something is messed up in the vncserver script on Debian and it doesn&#8217;t correctly check for the .vnc directory. It&#8217;s necessary to run vncpasswd.real to set the password for your vnc session and then vncserver will start without problems.<\/p>\n<p> An answer in less than 12 hours. The Internet and the community built up around open source software still manage to amaze me sometimes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I tried installing VNC over the weekend and ran into difficulty. I&#8217;m running the stable release of Debian 3.0 (Woody), so I went ahead and pulled that package version of vncserver. (BTW, it&#8217;s been said a million times before, but I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve raved about it yet. apt-get is really amazing. It&#8217;s definitely one <a href='https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/shared-debian-learning-of-the-day\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek","category-3-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3fonJ-47","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}