vnc 4.1 on solaris 8 inetd not working

[Jeff Hall]

This is a problem with the Solaris xdm. The only solution that I know
of is to build a newer version of xdm. I was successful using the
XFree 4.3.0 version.

On Tue, 3 May 2005, Malhotra, Dave wrote:

> Whenever I connect with vncviewer I get the window manager and I put in
> my login and password but as soon as I do the session dies before I get
> the full desktop. Here is my configuration:
>
>
>
> In my /etc/services:
>
> # grep vnc /etc/services
>
> vnc             5901/tcp        vnc             #Virtual Network
> Computing
>
> #
>
>
>
> In my /etc/inetd.conf:
>
> # grep vnc /etc/inetd.conf
>
> vnc        stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/local/bin/Xvnc     Xvnc
> -inetd -query localhost -once securitytypes=none -desktop DISPLAY=mail:1
>
> #
>
>
>
> Permissions of /tmp/.X11
>
> # ls -las /tmp/.X11-unix
>
> total 32
>
>   16 drwxrwxr-x   2 root     root         176 May  3 15:17 .
>
>   16 drwxrwxrwt  12 root     sys         1653 May  3 15:17 ..
>
> #
>
>
>
> The fontserver is running on 7100. I ran my inetd daemon with the -d
> option to see if it would give me any hints. Here is what it says:
>
> attempting incoming service vnc
>
> accept, ctrl 4
>
> 7850 reaped
>
>
>
> So it seems when vnc is about to open the full desktop the process gets
> reaped. But why?
>
>
>
> -dave
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