error while starting sun(unix) vncserver

[Adam]

I have had the same problem.

/tmp/.X11-unix needed to be made writeable by the owner of the vncserver
process.  I think the normal Sun Xserver resets the perms when it
starts.  A workaround it to create a suid==root program which resets the
perms before Xvnc starts, call it from the vncserver script.

NB:  I don't know what the security implications of changing the
permissions might be.

-Adam



Mary Blanchard wrote:
> 
> Hello VNC list,
> 
> I receive this error: _XSERVTransSocketCreateListener: failed to bind
> listener
>                              _XSERVTransSocketUNIXCreateListener:
> ...SocketCreateListener() failed
>                              _XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners:
> failed to create listener for local
>                              Fatal server error:
>                              Failed to establish all listening sockets
> 
> when trying to start the vncserver process on a sun solaris 2.6
> machine (ultra60).  I am able to run the same vncserver perl script on
> another ultra60 same os rev and I don't have any problems. On the
> machine where the vncserver works I can run it either as an admin or
> standard user; however, on the other machine I can only run the
> process as root.
> 
> any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> thankyou
> 
> Jeremy Hooper

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