I've run into a problem when remotely connecting to a test Fedora 8 machine with VNC and trying to run some programs. >From the menus, it will prompt for the root password, but then nothing comes up. Running the command from the command line will come up with the no protocol specified message, or sometimes bring up a text mode version of the program Strange thing as an example. gedit will generally work with the logged in name, but afer doing a su, it will sometimes work, and other times not giving the no protocol specified, and that it can not open display :79.0 As another issue I've found, is that boincmgr gets and error message when trying to run on the machine main interface with both user and root id. The boinc program itself runs fine. The boincmgr can be run from a vnc connection with no problem. I found this error mentioned in the forums a few months ago with a beta version of Fedora 8, but no solution. The only solution was to use a windows machine to manage the fedora 8 connection. Not sure what the difference is. I currently have 20 machines in my lab running Fedora 6, and was looking at upgrading to Fedora 8. The system is fully updated. +----------------------------------------------------------+ Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor Guam Community College Computer Center mailto:mikes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx mailto:msetzerii@xxxxxxxxx http://www.guam.net/home/mikes Guam - Where America's Day Begins +----------------------------------------------------------+ http://setiathome.berkeley.edu (Original) Number of Seti Units Returned: 19,471 Processing time: 32 years, 290 days, 12 hours, 58 minutes (Total Hours: 287,489) BOINC@HOME CREDITS SETI 4,087,763.614466 | EINSTEIN 1,254,278.474063 | ROSETTA 298,236.101251
