Oracle Linux: Getting Blue Screen With Clock on VNC Server (Doc ID 2695943.1)

Last updated on AUGUST 06, 2020

Applies to:

Symptoms

Getting blue screen with clock when launched VNC session for Oracle Linux server.

Output of the VNC session log file can be seen below.

/home/<username>/.vnc/<hostname>:1.log

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Xvnc TigerVNC 1.8.0 - built May 22 2020 03:32:01
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


Sat Jul 25 23:03:00 2020
 vncext: VNC extension running!
 vncext: Listening for VNC connections on all interface(s), port 5901
 vncext: created VNC server for screen 0
Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion

Sat Jul 25 23:03:10 2020
 Connections: accepted: 192.x.y.z::49827
 SConnection: Client needs protocol version 3.8
 SConnection: Client requests security type VncAuth(2)

Sat Jul 25 23:03:13 2020
 VNCSConnST: Server default pixel format depth 24 (32bpp) little-endian rgb888
 VNCSConnST: Client pixel format depth 6 (8bpp) rgb222 

Cause

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