VNC won't start properly at boot.

[Valis Keogh]

huh...

i have mine as an automatic service in win2k, never had any problems ;)

-----Original Message-----
From: vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com [mailto:vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com]On
Behalf Of Ronald Hall
Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 1:26 PM
To: vnc-list "at" realvnc.com
Subject: VNC won't start properly at boot.


I'm ready to toss my stupid box out the window.. having a strange problem
with VNC I just cannot figure out.  I'm trying to get VNC to start
automatically when the system comes up.  I've tried to do that 2 ways..
First, by doing it through rc.local:

su - username -c "vncserver :2 -name SystemName -depth 16 -geometry
800x600"

That fails with a black screen and an X for a cursor.. no windows
manager..

Then I tried loading through the vncserver service and the
/etc/sysconfig/vncservers file.. which I had:

VNCSERVERS="2:username"
VNCSERVERARGS[2]="-name SystemName -geometry 800x600 -depth 16"

That also fails with a black screen and an X for a cursor.

No, what doesn't make sense, and is driving me INSANE, is that if I just
MANUALLY start up VNC via an SSH session after my system boots up (And I
have VNC Services disabled and nothing in rc.local) it comes up with a
Gnome desktop just fine.  I also uncommented the 2 lines out of the 
~HOME/.vnc/xstartup file that Redhat suggests.  Its just strange if I 
invoke it manually it works but if I try to do it at startup it fails.

ANY ideas here?  I know the simple answer is just to start it when I need
it, but this is driving me INSANE and I can't figure out why it won't load
properly. Any insight would be greatly appreciated.  I am currently 
running Fedora Core 3, and VNC 4.0.7 I believe.

Ronald Hall
hall "at" acrimonious.net
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