Firefox not able to run in VNC?

[Seak, Teng-Fong]

    Can't you logoff from root after running vncserver?  Or can't you 
open another console to run Firefox using your own username?

Kuma Pageworks wrote:
> Hey all -
>
> I've got a VNC connection going to my Ubuntu 6.10 machine, and I've
> gotten GNOME running.  What I can't get running is Firefox.  When I
> check my logs, it says:
>
> You should really not run firefox through sudo WITHOUT the -H option.
> Anyway, I'll do as if you did use the -H option.
> AUDIT: Fri Feb 23 06:21:18 2007: 12403 Xrealvnc: client 13 rejected
> from local host
>  Auth name: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 ID: -1
> Xlib: connection to ":1.0" refused by server
> Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key
>
> (firefox-bin:12540): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
>
> ... and I'm confused.  If I don't run vncserver using sudo, I can't
> connect at all.  If I use sudo, it seems that I'm getting some
> conflicts.
>
> I was also getting dbus errors, but after adding dbus-launch to the
> gnome-session line, I've stopped getting those.
>
> Any help?
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