VNC server is off for 2.53.1 (latest) docker images

[MikeShysh]

Hello,

I faced with an issue of connecting to firefox/chrome-node-debug for 2.53.1 (latest) images. According to the logs, starting of the vncserver was failed:

Waiting xvfb...
05:55:43.976 INFO - Launching a Selenium Grid node
03/10/2016 05:55:44 passing arg to libvncserver: -rfbport
03/10/2016 05:55:44 passing arg to libvncserver: 5900
Enter VNC password: stty: 'standard input': Inappropriate ioctl for device
fgets: No such file or directory
stty: 'standard input': Inappropriate ioctl for device
x11vnc -usepw: could not find a password to use.

I think the following statement was failed while image was creating:

RUN mkdir -p ~/.vnc \
 && x11vnc -storepasswd secret ~/.vnc/passwd

Please check. Thank you in advance.

[ddavison]

hi @MegaUkrainian thanks for reporting this.. this change actually directly goes against @gurukiran007 's change in #256 , so i'd like to make sure that he has some input on this.

[TheBay0r]

As an alternative to b3c9fa5 it might be possible to start x11vnc in the entry script as seluser as well?

[ddavison]

it does work as root, and i'm going to leave it that way, really doesn't matter who is running the vnc server. i've pushed up a new version of the 2.53.1, 3.0.0-beta3 and 3.0.0-beta4 versions, and they are currently building. they will push when done (and of course, if tests pass.) will close this issue when they are released

[TheBay0r]

Your fix was my first local quick fix as well. Just tried running x11vnc as seluser now, because I don't know why it does matter where the secret is stored.
Thanks for taking care!

[ddavison]

well it matters since whoever runs x11vnc -usepw..., the -usepw param will look for ~/.vnc. if root is running the command, then it will look at ~root/.vnc. if seluser runs that command, it will look for ~seluser/.vnc.

i will say, that running the x11vnc command from seluser with the ~seluser/.vnc command would probably work, but since the entry_point.sh is already running as root, might as well keep it that way, and put the passwd file in ~root/.vnc 👍

[ddavison]

pushed all versions

[gurukiran007]

👍