Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - VNCserver Session Is Not Started (Doc ID 2507849.1)

Last updated on SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Applies to:

Symptoms

Starting VNCServer in Oracle Linux instance could fail with either of the following errors

• Error 1:
  
  opc@ localhost ~]$ cat /home/opc/.vnc/localhost:1.log

  Warning: the -nolock option can only be used by root

  Xvnc TigerVNC 1.8.0 - built Oct 31 2018 03:02:26
  Copyright (C) 1999-2017 TigerVNC Team and many others (see README.txt)
  See http://www.tigervnc.org for information on TigerVNC.
  Underlying X server release 12000000, The X.Org Foundation

  vncext: VNC extension running!
  vncext: Listening for VNC connections on all interface(s), port 5901
  vncext: created VNC server for screen 0
  The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:
  > Internal error: Could not resolve keysym XF86WWAN
  > Internal error: Could not resolve keysym XF86RFKill
  Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server
  Killing Xvnc process ID 15957
  XIO: fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":1"
  after 31 requests (31 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
  XIO: fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":1"
  after 51 requests (51 known processed) wi
  
  

• Error 2
  
  [opc@localhost ~]$ cat /home/opc/.vnc/localhost:1.log
  Warning: the -nolock option can only be used by root

  Xvnc TigerVNC 1.8.0 - built Oct 31 2018 03:02:26
  Copyright (C) 1999-2017 TigerVNC Team and many others (see README.txt)
  See http://www.tigervnc.org for information on TigerVNC.
  Underlying X server release 12000000, The X.Org Foundation

  vncext: VNC extension running!
  vncext: Listening for VNC connections on all interface(s), port 5901
  vncext: created VNC server for screen 0
  Killing Xvnc process ID 15355
  XIO: fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":1"
  after 31 requests (31 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
  XIO: fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":1"
  after 51 requests (51 known processed) wi

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