Today, we discussed this topic in detail and saw how our Support Engineers find the fix for different scenarios. In conclusion the VNC service fails to start in different scenarios. Note: Fix may vary depending on the OS and VNC (TightVNCTigerVNC, UltraVNC, etc). Then restarted the server using the command: systemctl start :X.service So we removed them manually using the command below: rm -f /tmp/.X11-unix/Y where Y is the file to remove. So, we checked in detail and found that tigerVNC failed to clear the files created under /tmp and /tmp/.X11-unix/. See systemctl status :X.service and journalctl -xe for details. Job for :X.service failed because a configured resource limit was exceeded. So our Support Engineers tried starting VNC and we got an error when trying to start VNC service. He also mentioned that he is using TigerVNC. Recently one of our customers approached us saying that he is getting an error when he starts the VNC service.
So, we set the password for the user- Mynewuser defined in the configuration file and restarted the service. When checked we found that the VNC password was not set. Our Engineers handled such issues recently. There are situations where customers approach us saying failed to start remote desktop service vnc. Failed to start VNC occur when password not set Today we are going to discuss how our Support Engineers fix it for our customers.ġ. Our Support Engineers handled many cases and we found that the two of the main reasons are: So, we need to create a new user and add it to the ‘wheel’ group for root access. For this guide, the VNC desktop will be available for a non-root user.
Before we start installing and configuring the VNC server, please update your CentOS using the yum command. But there are different reasons for VNC service start to fail. Step 1 Update CentOS and add a Linux User. VNC is a graphical desktop-sharing system in order to control another computer remotely. Failed to start remote desktop service VNC? Reasons are here! Today, we’ll see how our Support Engineers fix this. One of the main reasons for the failure to start remote desktop service vnc is related to setting vnc user password.Īt Bobcares, we get requests on VNC errors as a part of our Server Management Services. Oops!! Failed to start remote desktop service VNC? We can help you with it.