Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Getting A Blank Screen When Accessing A Compute Instance Via Vncviewer (Doc ID 2600259.1)

Last updated on APRIL 05, 2023

Applies to:

Symptoms

Getting a blank screen when accessing a compute instance via vncviewer

Logs:  /home/<user>/.vnc/<hostname>.<display>.log

Xvnc TigerVNC 1.8.0 - built Jun 9 2019 09:21:12
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 12004000, The X.Org Foundation

Tue Oct 15 15:07:54 2019
vncext: VNC extension running!
vncext: Listening for VNC connections on all interface(s), port 5901
vncext: created VNC server for screen 0
/usr/bin/xterm: cannot load font '-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso10646-1'         <============ HERE

Changes

 TigetVNC, xterm was installed on the instance without any xorgs-fonts

Cause

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