Grey Screen using inetd - Solaris 6

Calvin Webster cwebster "at" ec.rr.com
Fri Sep 30 22:17:01 2005


Server is VNC 4.1.1, installed from downloaded Solaris package. Server
is running from inetd.

Symptoms are identical regardless of the viewer version or viewer host
platform. 

I have several successful other VNC servers running on RHEL 4, Windows
NT, Windows 2000, and RHL 9.

I run vncviewer from a Linux host:

    vncviewer av8bios:50

VNC display comes up immediately, but hangs on grey display with "X"
cursor and no terminals or windows. After about 20-30 seconds the
display drops out leaving no errors on the terminal.

I can't find any vnc log on the system. I tried redirecting stderr, but
it's always empty.

I've searched the list archive and tried a few things but nothing has
worked.

Here's some more info:


## Excerpt from "/etc/inetd.conf":
---------------------------
#
# VNC Server
#
vnc50   stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/local/bin/Xvnc-inetd      
Xvnc-inetd
---------------------------

## Contents of "/usr/local/bin/Xvnc-inetd" (word-wrapped single line):
---------------------------
#!/bin/sh

exec /usr/local/bin/Xvnc -inetd -securitytypes=none -depth 24 -geometry
1280x1024 -nolisten named -query localhost -once 3>/dev/null
---------------------------

## Ownership and permissions:
---------------------------
-r-xr-xr-x   1 bin      bin      3239328 Mar 11  2005
/usr/local/bin/Xvnc
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root     other        288 Sep 30 17:06
/usr/local/bin/Xvnc-inetd
---------------------------

## Excerpt from "/etc/services":
---------------------------
vnc50           5950/tcp                        # VNC Server
---------------------------

Any suggestions will be welcome and appreciated.

--Cal Webster