<html><head></head><body><div>On Mon, 2021-03-01 at 07:57 -0600, Leo Butler via mythtv-users wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><pre>I upgraded my frontend and separate backend from ubuntu 18.04 to 20.04,</pre><pre>then upgraded myth from the .29 mythbuntu ppa to .31 (all due to the</pre><pre>pending changes involving the metadata grabbers).</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>The frontend and backend both work fine after the upgrade.</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>Before the upgrade, I was able to use vnc tunnelled over ssh to run</pre><pre>mythfrontend on the backend, too (I do most editing this way). Here is</pre><pre>the complete command to run the server:</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>Xtightvnc :100 -desktop MYTHTV_SERVER -auth</pre><pre>/home/mythtv-user/.Xauthority -geometry 1500x860 -depth 24 -rfbwait</pre><pre>120000 -rfbauth /home/mythtv-user/.vnc/passwd -rfbport 6000 -fp</pre><pre>/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/,/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1/,/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/,/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/</pre><pre>-co /etc/X11/rgb -nevershared</pre><pre><br></pre><pre><br></pre><pre>The vncserver runs a fluxbox window manager.</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>After the upgrade, that no longer works even though mythfrontend works</pre><pre>on the backend (under the gnome desktop). It looks like a Qt-related</pre><pre>problem, but I am at a loss how to fix it.</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>Attached are stdout and stderr from</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>mythfrontend > m.log 2> m.err.txt</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>in a terminal inside the fluxbox-managed vnc session.</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>TIA,</pre><pre>Leo</pre></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Can you simply `ssh -X` into the server? Ubuntu is running Wayland, so .Xauthority is no longer used, etc.. Is the vnc server running, or does it error out on start?</div></body></html>