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title: TigerVNC fail on RHEL 6.3+ link: https://onemoretech.wordpress.com/2013/12/05/tigervnc-fail-on-rhel-6-3/ author: phil2nc description: post_id: 6729 created: 2013/12/05 22:26:53 created_gmt: 2013/12/06 03:26:53 comment_status: closed post_name: tigervnc-fail-on-rhel-6-3 status: publish post_type: post

TigerVNC fail on RHEL 6.3+

Ugly error message after installing and then trying to run tigervnc-server on RHEL 6.3, don't panic! All you need is to add some prereq packages that didn't make it into the tigervnc manifest.

[user@example ~]$ vncserver

WARNING: The first attempt to start Xvnc failed, possibly because the font
catalog is not properly configured.  Attempting to determine an appropriate
font path for this system and restart Xvnc using that font path ...
Could not start Xvnc.

/usr/bin/Xvnc: symbol lookup error: /usr/bin/Xvnc: undefined symbol: pixman_composite_trapezoids
/usr/bin/Xvnc: symbol lookup error: /usr/bin/Xvnc: undefined symbol: pixman_composite_trapezoids

Fixed by installing the following packages: libXfont pixman pixman-devel So there you go. Crisis averted. Thanks to the enigmatic zrowland for this solution, found here.