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I try to run vncserver on Raspberry Pi but this error is shown:

Couldn’t start Xtightvnc; trying default font path.
Please set correct fontPath in the vncserver script.
Couldn’t start Xtightvnc process.

Can anyone help me?

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I just had a similar error when trying to install the tightvncserver. The comment here about the host name helped to fix my problem.

I had changed the default pi host name in raspi-config, but it would appear that the standard install for tightvncserver sticks with the default hostname of "pi". I changed my pi hostname back to pi in the raspi-config tool and the vncserver now works without the above reported errors.

This is the error I had.

~ $ tightvncserver
sh: 1: Syntax error: "(" unexpected
sh: 1: Syntax error: "(" unexpected
sh: 1: Syntax error: "(" unexpected
sh: 1: Syntax error: "(" unexpected
Couldn't start Xtightvnc; trying default font path.
Please set correct fontPath in the tightvncserver script.
sh: 1: Syntax error: "(" unexpected
sh: 1: Syntax error: "(" unexpected
Couldn't start Xtightvnc process.

Hope this helps.

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  • I think the default hostname (a.k.a. Computer name) is 'raspberry', and it is the default username (Thing located between screen/keyboard and chair) that is 'pi'?
    – SlySven
    Jan 6 '16 at 22:39
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Couldn’t start Xtightvnc process.

  • Check your hostname and make sure this and /etc/hosts are the same.

nano /etc/hostname nano /etc/hosts hostname

Please set correct fontPath in the vncserver script

  • Fonts are missing. Look in folder:

ls /usr/share/fonts/X11/

If you can't find them there either then simply install xfonts-base

apt-get install xfonts-base

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