VNC & RedHat 6.1

[Matthew C. Grab]

is your startx hardcoded to run display :0 ?
The error message looks like it is trying to connect to :0, and to my
knowledge, you have to run on >0 on a unix box.

If you linked xstartup to startx, then what are the contents of startx?

Matt Grab
mis "at" cindyrowe.com

"Brian C. Doyle" wrote:
> 
> I have linked my xstartup to my startx On RedHat 6.1.  When I when i try
> and start the vncserver with vncserver :2 -depth 24 I get an error in my
> log file stating :
> 
> Authentication failed - cannot start X server.
> Perhaps you do not have console ownership?
> 
> How do I setup my xstartup to be able to start the X server under a user
> account.  As root it does not work either but it is not an ownership issue.
> 
> 13/06/00 06:02:39 Xvnc version 3.3.3r1
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> 13/06/00 06:02:39 Desktop name 'X' (localhost.localdomain:1)
> 13/06/00 06:02:39 Protocol version supported 3.3
> 13/06/00 06:02:39 Listening for VNC connections on TCP port 5901
> 13/06/00 06:02:39 Listening for HTTP connections on TCP port 5801
> 13/06/00 06:02:39   URL http://localhost.localdomain:5801
> Font directory '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/' not found - ignoring
> 
> Fatal server error:
> Server is already active for display 0
>          If this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock
>          and start again.
> 
> When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send
> the full server output, not just the last messages
> 
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key
> giving up.
> xinit:  unable to connect to X server
> xinit:  No such process (errno 3):  Server error.
> 
> Please anyhelp would be great!!!!
> 
> Brian C. Doyle
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