VNCViewer not starting anymore

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 12/11/2011 04:29 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>
> 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.

Well I rebooted this morning and now VNCviewer is working properly.  I 
figure with all the gnome extensions and plugins I implemented yesterday 
without rebooting (they all seemed to be working without it, so why do 
it), that something messed up how its dialog was working until the reboot?