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Greeting.
I am on ubuntu 16.04 LTS. It is an amazon EC2 instance
I got grey screen upon installing and starting the vncserver
I try many suggestion regarding this issue but still cant get it work....
Thanks for the help

My logfile:

Xvnc Free Edition 4.1.1 - built Feb 25 2015 23:02:21

Copyright (C) 2002-2005 RealVNC Ltd.

See http://www.realvnc.com for information on VNC.

Underlying X server release 40300000, The XFree86 Project, Inc

Tue Jul 19 03:03:37 2016

 vncext:      VNC extension running!

 vncext:      Listening for VNC connections on port 5901

 vncext:      created VNC server for screen 0

error opening security policy file /etc/X11/xserver/SecurityPolicy

Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/, removing from list!

Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/, removing from list!

Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/, removing from list!

Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/, removing from list!

Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/, removing from list!

Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/, removing from list!

Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/, removing from list!

Tue Jul 19 03:03:44 2016

 Connections: accepted: 0.0.0.0::61550

 SConnection: Client needs protocol version 3.8

 SConnection: Client requests security type VncAuth(2)

Tue Jul 19 03:03:50 2016

 VNCSConnST:  Server default pixel format depth 16 (16bpp) little-endian rgb565

Tue Jul 19 03:03:51 2016

 VNCSConnST:  Client pixel format depth 8 (8bpp) colour-map

my xstartup

#!/bin/sh

# Uncomment the following two lines for normal desktop:

 unset SESSION_MANAGER

 exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc

[ -x /etc/vnc/xstartup ] && exec /etc/vnc/xstartup

[ -r $HOME/.Xresources ] && xrdb $HOME/.Xresources

xsetroot -solid grey

vncconfig -iconic &

x-terminal-emulator -geometry 80x24+10+10 -ls -title "$VNCDESKTOP Desktop" &

gnome-session &

I had the same issue on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (64bit). I updated ~/.vnc/xstartup file to look like below, worked successfully for me.

# Uncomment the following two lines for normal desktop:

# unset SESSION_MANAGER

# exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc



[ -x /etc/vnc/xstartup ] && exec /etc/vnc/xstartup

[ -r $HOME/.Xresources ] && xrdb $HOME/.Xresources

xsetroot -solid grey

vncconfig -iconic &

x-terminal-emulator -geometry 80x24+10+10 -ls -title "$VNCDESKTOP Desktop" &

x-window-manager &



gnome-panel &

gnome-settings-daemon &

metacity &

nautilus &

Reference: https://www.linode.com/docs/applications/remote-desktop/install-vnc-on-ubuntu-16-04

I had the same issue. To resolve it, I installed:

$ sudo apt-get install gnome-panel gnome-settings-daemon metacity nautilus gnome-terminal

Then I added the lines below to ~/.vnc/xstartup:

gnome-panel &

gnome-settings-daemon &

metacity &

nautilus &

For anyone experiencing this problem on Xubuntu 16.04 LTS, I got my tightvncserver working by editing ~/.vnc/xstartup to this:

#!/bin/sh



xrdb $HOME/.Xresources

xsetroot -solid grey

#x-terminal-emulator -geometry 80x24+10+10 -ls -title "$VNCDESKTOP Desktop" &

#x-window-manager &

# Fix to make GNOME work

#export XKL_XMODMAP_DISABLE=1

#/etc/X11/Xsession

# fix to make xfce work:

startxfce4 &

The first two commented-out lines were already commented out presumably by the packager. I commented out the two lines following "fix to make GNOME work", and added the last two lines, so it can be shortened to just

#!/bin/sh



xrdb $HOME/.Xresources

xsetroot -solid grey

# fix to make xfce work:

startxfce4 &

Again, this applies specifically to Xubuntu, not Ubuntu with Unity or Gnome.

Not mentioned in any of the answers at the time of writing: it is also worth noting that the xstartup file needs to be executable:

chmod +x ~/.vnc/xstartup

If not, the grey screen issue continues to occur regardless of the contents of the file.

Just had the a similar problem and found a solution which I have not seen in any articles I read over the past few days trying to sort this out.

In addition to @Waqas answer I had to make sure I own all files in my home folder. Clearly this is about some specific files but I did'nt have time to check this out

sudo chown user:user /home/user

Just thought it might help somebody.

My xstartup config file already had following lines which were commented out by default.

# Uncomment the following two lines for normal desktop:

unset SESSION_MANAGER

exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc

un-commenting them fixed the problem and now i can access my desktop via vnc client smoothly. it still launches terminal window at logon but if you exit that then it shows the usual desktop via vnc.

I finally got this working from vnc4server by "apt-get install xfce4", and found a working xtartup here (the rest of the tutorial was irrelevant for my needs, e.g. "apt-get install xfce4-*" was unneccessary):
http://www.itzgeek.com/how-tos/linux/ubuntu-how-tos/how-to-install-vnc-on-ubuntu-16-04.html

#!/bin/sh

[ -r $HOME/.Xresources ] && xrdb $HOME/.Xresources

startxfce4 &

I've more or less concluded getting gnome to work in vnc is a non-starter.

I had the same issue after upgrading from 12.04 via 14.04 to 16.04. The essential tip that helped me was to install gnome-panel. Ref:
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/ubuntu-linux/209177-vnc-grey-screen-hi-res.html

sudo apt-get install gnome-panel