VNC Server Problem.. I'm ready to kill! Please help!
Ronald Hall
hall at acrimonious.net
Thu Nov 11 17:05:54 UTC 2004
I'm ready to toss my stupid box out the window.. having a strange problem
with VNC I just cannot figure out. I'm trying to get VNC to start
automatically when the system comes up. I've tried to do that 2 ways..
First, by doing it through rc.local:
su - username -c "vncserver :2 -name SystemName -depth 16 -geometry
800x600"
That fails with a black screen and an X for a cursor.. no windows
manager..
Then I tried loading through the vncserver service and the
/etc/sysconfig/vncservers file.. which I had:
VNCSERVERS="2:username"
VNCSERVERARGS[2]="-name SystemName -geometry 800x600 -depth 16"
That also fails with a black screen and an X for a cursor.
No, what doesn't make sense, and is driving me INSANE, is that if I just
MANUALLY start up VNC via an SSH session after my system boots up (And I
have VNC Services disabled and nothing in rc.local) it comes up with a
Gnome desktop just fine.
ANY ideas here? I know the simple answer is just to start it when I need
it, but this is driving me INSANE and I can't figure out why it won't load
properly. Any insight would be greatly appreciated.
Ronald Hall
hall at acrimonious.net
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