VNCViewer not starting anymore

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 12/11/2011 03:51 PM, mike cloaked wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 8:15 PM, Robert Moskowitz<rgm at htt-consult.com>  wrote:
>
>> $ vncviewer
>>
>> TigerVNC Viewer for X version 1.1.0 - built Nov 22 2011 14:21:13
>> Copyright (C) 1999-2011 TigerVNC Team and many others (see README.txt)
>> See http://www.tigervnc.org for information on TigerVNC.
>> ^C
>> Sun Dec 11 15:07:30 2011
>>   main:        CleanupSignalHandler called
>>
>> Nothing...
> I have been using vncviewer in f16 without any problems - the way I
> use it is to set up an ssh tunnel forwarding a local port at the
> client end to the usual 5900 port at the vnc-server end.
>
> So I run the ssh tunnel in one terminal window and then run the
> vncviewer command as below in a separate terminal window.
> The local client call is then using a different localhost port which
> gets forwarded to the tunnel using:
>
> vncviewer -passwd /path/to/password-file localhost:55900
>
> Of course I have previously used vnc to generate the password file
> which is shared between the server and client machines. Here the local
> port if 55900 which gets forwarded to the normal 5900 port at the
> server end.. The server is set up to run vnc-server with the password
> file defined to match that of the client which calls in.
>
> This has worked without any problems at all in f16 (x86_64)

It worked at first and then stopped working.  Now it was early in my 
configuration, and I have done a lot of gnome customization since.  I 
guess I will have to wait until the drive copy is completed and then 
reboot and try it on a clean system.