TigerVNC session timeout

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I have installed TigerVNC on my DigitalOcean FE24 box following https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/21/html/System_Administrators_Guide/ch-TigerVNC.html.

I start my vnc server with the command 

$ systemctl start vncserver@:0.service
==== AUTHENTICATING FOR org.freedesktop.systemd1.manage-units ===
Authentication is required to start 'vncserver@:0.service'.
Authenticating as: user
Password:
==== AUTHENTICATION COMPLETE ===
Job for vncserver@:0.service failed because a timeout was exceeded. See "systemctl status vncserver@:0.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.

This keeps happening after hardly a minute I run the command and the VNC access is lost.

Where am I going wrong?

Best Answer

Editing the file /etc/systemd/system/vncserver@.service solved it for me, specifically by removing the following lines:

ExecStartPre=-/usr/bin/vncserver -kill %i

PIDFile=/home/<USER>/.vnc/%H%i.pid

I had this exact problem, which also was causing the service to fail on boot (when it was enabled via systemctl enable vncserver@:0.service. Starting the service manually (via systemctl start vncserver@:0.service) would disconnect connected VNC clients after about a minute or so.

I happened upon the answer in this thread via fedoraforum.org, so credits to them!

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