missing netstat depends on bionic

Bug #1772922 reported by Marcin Janowski
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
x11vnc (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
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Bug Description

May 23 14:07:20 ubuntu x11vnc[404]: --- x11vnc loop: waiting for: 13023
May 23 14:07:20 ubuntu x11vnc[404]: 23/05/2018 14:07:20 passing arg to libvncserver: -rfbauth
May 23 14:07:20 ubuntu x11vnc[404]: 23/05/2018 14:07:20 passing arg to libvncserver: /home/ubuntu/.vnc/passwd
May 23 14:07:20 ubuntu x11vnc[404]: 23/05/2018 14:07:20 passing arg to libvncserver: -rfbport
May 23 14:07:20 ubuntu x11vnc[404]: 23/05/2018 14:07:20 passing arg to libvncserver: 5900
May 23 14:07:20 ubuntu x11vnc[404]: 23/05/2018 14:07:20 x11vnc version: 0.9.13 lastmod: 2011-08-10 pid: 13023
May 23 14:07:21 ubuntu x11vnc[404]: /tmp/fd.xNsV7I: 1: /tmp/fd.xNsV7I: netstat: not found
May 23 14:07:21 ubuntu x11vnc[404]: xauth: unable to generate an authority file name
May 23 14:07:21 ubuntu x11vnc[404]: /tmp/fd.xNsV7I: 1: /tmp/fd.xNsV7I: netstat: not found
May 23 14:07:21 ubuntu x11vnc[404]: 23/05/2018 14:07:21 -auth guess: failed for display='unset'
May 23 14:07:21 ubuntu x11vnc[404]: 23/05/2018 14:07:21 -auth guess: since we are root, retrying with FD_XDM=1
May 23 14:07:21 ubuntu x11vnc[404]: /tmp/fd.eegh2M: 1: /tmp/fd.eegh2M: netstat: not found
May 23 14:07:21 ubuntu x11vnc[404]: 23/05/2018 14:07:21 -auth guess: failed for display='unset'
May 23 14:07:21 ubuntu x11vnc[404]: --- x11vnc loop: sleeping 2000 ms ---

root@ubuntu:~# cat /lib/systemd/system/x11vnc.service
[Unit]
Description=Start x11vnc at startup.
After=multi-user.target

[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStart=/usr/bin/x11vnc -auth guess -forever -loop -noxdamage -repeat -rfbauth /home/ubuntu/.vnc/passwd -rfbport 5900 -shared

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in x11vnc (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Colin 't Hart (colinthart) wrote :

Still a problem in 22.04 Jammy.
Very easy to reproduce. Do a minimal install of Xubuntu, install x11vnc, then run
x11vnc -quiet -auth guess

Ignore the no password warning; the error follows immediately:

/tmp/fd.eOPlUT: 1: netstat: not found

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