VNC & RedHat 6.1

[Brian C. Doyle]

You must be correct!

I did finally get it to work.  I had to link xstartup to 
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc and bam it worked like a charm.

Thanks for everyones help

At 08:57 AM 6/13/00 -0400, you wrote:
>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
> > 13/06/00 06:02:39 Copyright (C) AT&T Laboratories Cambridge.
> > 13/06/00 06:02:39 All Rights Reserved.
> > 13/06/00 06:02:39 See http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc for 
> information on VNC
> > 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
> > Coach Team Force
> > Earthlink Mindspring Technical Support
> > support "at" mindspring.com
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> > To unsubscribe, send a message with the line: unsubscribe vnc-list
> > to majordomo "at" uk.research.att.com
> > See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>---------------------------------------------------------------------
>To unsubscribe, send a message with the line: unsubscribe vnc-list
>to majordomo "at" uk.research.att.com
>See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html
>---------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, send a message with the line: unsubscribe vnc-list
to majordomo "at" uk.research.att.com
See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html
---------------------------------------------------------------------