Setting up Tigervnc [FAILED] ?!? -- [SOLVED]
Aaron Konstam
akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Sat Jan 9 14:31:54 UTC 2010
On Sat, 2010-01-09 at 01:30 -0500, William Case wrote:
> Thanks Ed;
>
> On Sat, 2010-01-09 at 13:04 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> > William Case wrote:
> > >
>
> > > My frustration level is getting too high for now. A good drink and a
> > > sleep and I'll try again in the morning.
> > >
> > But.... I now know what is most likely causing your problem....
> >
> > Your user "bill" probably doesn't have a ~/.vnc directory with the
> > requisite files, passwd and xstartup.
> >
> > So, before you can start up a service for this user you'll need to start
> > the server as the user and complete the prompts for "password"
> >
> > So....
> >
> > 1. Login as bill
> > 2. Enter "vncserver"
> > 3. Follow the prompts
> > 4. Stop the server with "vncserver -kill :X" where X= the number
> > presented to you in the line similar to this...
> >
> > New 'f12.greshko.com:1 (gnomer)' desktop is f12.greshko.com:1 (My X
> > would be 1)
> >
> > 5. Now you can go ahead and configure the vncserver service.
> >
>
> Followed your instructions and it worked like a charm. I can handle the
> rest. Thanks.
>
> I was just suffering from the biggest irony of computer use. Too much
> information and none dealing with the very first simplest steps that
> 'everyone' should know. I was trying to get the vnc service started
> first when all along the vncservice command would have started it for
> me.
>
> I'll spend the weekend figuring out why it worked i.e. what the various
> scripts and files in vncservice were doing.
>
> --
> Regards Bill
> Fedora 12, Gnome 2.28
> Evo.2.28, Emacs 23.1.1
>
Mine is also working now. Thanks.
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