Hello,
I have VNC Server running as a service on Fedora Core 3 and I have opened TCP port 5901 on the Linux firewall. From my WinXP laptop I am able to log in to the VNC Server, but then I just get a blank screen... nothing more. HELP!
Thanks, ...Scott
Here are the contents of ~/.vnc/xstartup:
[sward@NCDURHSWARD .vnc]$ cat xstartup #!/bin/sh
# Uncomment the following two lines for normal desktop: unset SESSION_MANAGER exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc
[ -x /etc/vnc/xstartup ] && exec /etc/vnc/xstartup [ -r $HOME/.Xresources ] && xrdb $HOME/.Xresources xsetroot -solid grey vncconfig -iconic & xterm -geometry 80x24+10+10 -ls -title "$VNCDESKTOP Desktop" & twm &
Here are the contents of the VNC log file:
[sward@NCDURHSWARD .vnc]$ cat NCDURHSWARD\:1.log _XSERVTransmkdir: ERROR: euid != 0,directory /tmp/.X11-unix will not be created. _XSERVTransSocketUNIXCreateListener: mkdir(/tmp/.X11-unix) failed, errno = 2 _XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: failed to create listener for local
Xvnc version 4.0 - built Oct 6 2004 08:16:57 Underlying X server release 60801000, The X.Org Foundation
Wed Dec 29 15:17:12 2004 vncext: VNC extension running! vncext: Listening for VNC connections on port 5901 vncext: Listening for HTTP connections on port 5801 vncext: created VNC server for screen 0 error opening security policy file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xserver/SecurityPolicy Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/, removing from list! Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/, removing from list! Agent pid 3266 SESSION_MANAGER=local/NCDURHSWARD:/tmp/.ICE-unix/3191
** (gnome-session:3191): WARNING **: Esound failed to start.
Wed Dec 29 18:33:39 2004 Connections: accepted: 192.168.0.100::4755 SConnection: Client needs protocol version 3.8 SConnection: Client requests security type VncAuth(2)
Wed Dec 29 18:33:47 2004 VNCSConnST: Server default pixel format depth 16 (16bpp) little-endian rgb565 VNCSConnST: Client pixel format depth 8 (8bpp) rgb max 3,3,3 shift 4,2,0
Wed Dec 29 18:33:55 2004 Connections: closed: 192.168.0.100::4755 (Clean disconnection) SMsgWriter: framebuffer updates 2 SMsgWriter: ZRLE rects 3, bytes 214 SMsgWriter: raw bytes equivalent 786980, compression ratio 3677.476636