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I used the instructions on this site:

https://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-install-vnc-server-on-ubuntu-14.04

to install VNC server on my Ubuntu 14.04. It worked fine. I could login using VNC Viewer 5.1.1 from Windows. Today I did apt-get upgrade and restarted. After restarting the machine, I could not login either using VNC (Connection Refused 10061) or on the console. syslog showed a problem reading ~/.ICEauthority so I chowned that and now can login on the console but VNC still gives 'Connection refused.'

When I try to start vncviewer from a shell, I get:

Wrong type or access mode of /home/jjen009/.vnc.

jj

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  • PS - when I try to start vncserver from a shell login, I get:Wrong type or access mode of /home/jjen009/.vnc. – John Jensen Jan 17 '15 at 00:18
  • So what are the type and access mode? Please add the output of ls -ld ~/.vnc/ to your post (also can you clarify whether you are trying to start vncviewer as per your question or vncserver as indicated in your comment). – steeldriver Jan 17 '15 at 04:17
  • I'm not sure what you mean by 'type' and 'access mode.'

    ls -ld ./.vnc:

    drwxrwxr-x 2 jjen009 jjen009 4096 Jan 17 14:16 .vnc

    I'm trying to start vncviewer from Windows to talk to the Ubuntu machine. Worked until I rebooted.

    jj

     – John Jensen Jan 18 '15 at 06:44
  • Have you verified (using ps - or netstat) that the VNC service actually started? – steeldriver Jan 18 '15 at 19:50
  • This blog describes how to set up rdp: http://c-nergy.be/blog/?p=8952&cpage=4 . The key to getting it to work on Ubuntu 16 and above is to install an alternative desktop environment. – Nathan Jones Jun 01 '19 at 18:00

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There is a known bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vnc4/+bug/1200451 This means that even a super use can't start vnc if the relevant configuration files are owned by a regular user. Check with ls -la . on the home directory e.g. in my case:

ls -la .
drwxr-xr-x  2 wf   users      4096 Nov 10 10:57 .vnc

when I went out of super use mode i could run:

vncserver

to get:

New 'X' desktop is capri:1

Starting applications specified in /home/wf/.vnc/xstartup
Log file is /home/wf/.vnc/capri:1.log
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