Different Hosts in different locations, behaving
differently...
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eeeeeeeemail "at" gmail.com
Sat Jan 20 15:52:02 2007
Wez,
OK... I didn't get the time until now to look into this...
I cut out VNC... I installed Exceed on my PC and exported my display from
the UNIX hosts...
The host on which VNC is working... everything appears to be the same via
Exceed: CDE started, term sessions created, etc...
The host on which VNC does NOT (appear to) work... no desktop... BUT!! a few
'windows' did open: two 'help' tools (one had an error message), the
performance meter (which is the tool I see in the VNC client session!), and
the file manager.
So! This tells me things are not setup the same on these two hosts. But
where do I have the admins start looking?? From the error message in the
one 'help' tool, I would guess not everything for Xwindows is
installed/configured.
>From what I can see, all permissions, all 'files/directories' are the same
on both hosts... so I would guess either something at the OS level or even
something in the Xwindow install/config must be different... But where do I
start looking?
Thanks!
Ray
On 1/17/07, James Weatherall <jnw "at" realvnc.com> wrote:
>
> From what you've described, it almost looks like the xstartup script isn't
> being run. Are you sure that the user's xstartup script is readable and
> executable, and that they "vncserver" Perl script hasn't been modified
> from
> the out-of-the-box version?
>
> Wez @ RealVNC Ltd.
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: E Mail [mailto:eeeeeeeemail "at" gmail.com]
> > Sent: 17 January 2007 13:36
> > To: James Weatherall
> > Cc: VNC-List "at" realvnc.com
> > Subject: Re: Different Hosts in different locations, behaving
> > differently...
> >
> > Wez,
> >
> > Which logs are you asking to check? I meant to include in
> > my original note, the VNC log for both hosts has the same
> > info... is there a 'logging level' to change in VNC?
> >
> > Working host:
> >
> > Xvnc Free Edition 4.1.2 - built May 12 2006 17:52:56
> > Copyright (C) 2002-2005 RealVNC Ltd.
> > See http://www.realvnc.com for information on VNC.
> > Underlying X server release 0, unknown
> >
> >
> > Fri Oct 13 16:30:36 2006
> > vncext: VNC extension running!
> > vncext: Listening for VNC connections on port 5909
> > vncext: created VNC server for screen 0
> > error opening security policy file
> > /usr/openwin/lib/X11/xserver/SecurityPolicy
> > Could not init font path element /usr/X/lib/X11/fonts/Type3/,
> > removing from list
> > !
> > Could not init font path element /usr/X/lib/X11/fonts/Type3/,
> > removing from list
> > !
> >
> > Fri Oct 13 16:31:05 2006
> > Connections: accepted: xx.xx.xx.xx::4225
> > SConnection: Client needs protocol version 3.8
> > SConnection: Client requests security type VncAuth(2)
> >
> > Fri Oct 13 16:31:07 2006
> > VNCSConnST: Server default pixel format depth 8 (8bpp) colour-map
> > VNCSConnST: Client pixel format depth 8 (8bpp) colour-map
> >
> > Fri Oct 13 16:31:17 2006
> > Connections: closed: xx.xx.xx.xx::4225 (Clean disconnection)
> > SMsgWriter: framebuffer updates 41
> > SMsgWriter: ZRLE rects 65, bytes 45681
> > SMsgWriter: raw bytes equivalent 1047318, compression
> > ratio 22.926775
> >
> > Not Working Host:
> > Xvnc Free Edition 4.1.2 - built May 12 2006 17:52:56
> > Copyright (C) 2002-2005 RealVNC Ltd.
> > See http://www.realvnc.com <http://www.realvnc.com> for
> > information on VNC.
> > Underlying X server release 0, unknown
> >
> >
> > Sat Jan 6 20:24:46 2007
> > vncext: VNC extension running!
> > vncext: Listening for VNC connections on port 5909
> > vncext: created VNC server for screen 0
> > error opening security policy file
> > /usr/openwin/lib/X11/xserver/SecurityPolicy
> > Could not init font path element /usr/X/lib/X11/fonts/Type3/,
> > removing from list
> > !
> > Could not init font path element /usr/X/lib/X11/fonts/Type3/,
> > removing from list
> > !
> >
> > Sat Jan 6 20:24:54 2007
> > Connections: accepted: xx.xx.xx.xx::2036
> > SConnection: Client needs protocol version 3.8
> > SConnection: Client requests security type VncAuth(2)
> >
> > Sat Jan 6 20:24:58 2007
> > VNCSConnST: Server default pixel format depth 8 (8bpp) colour-map
> > VNCSConnST: Client pixel format depth 8 (8bpp) colour-map
> >
> > Sat Jan 6 20:27:08 2007
> > Connections: closed: xx.xx.xx.xx::2036 (Clean disconnection)
> > SMsgWriter: framebuffer updates 80
> > SMsgWriter: ZRLE rects 115, bytes 4403
> > SMsgWriter: raw bytes equivalent 823180, compression
> > ratio 186.958892
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 1/17/07, James Weatherall <jnw "at" realvnc.com> wrote:
> >
> > Ray,
> >
> > The thing to do is examine the log files for the
> > desktops you're running on
> > the two systems. If you find that one machine has
> > problems with the
> > xstartup apps connecting to the desktop then check the
> > DISPLAY environment
> > variable. We've heard of problems in the past both
> > where X apps can't
> > connect to the X server because they're using the
> > :<display> form of DISPLAY
> > and the X server isn't listening on Unix-domain
> > connections, and where
> > they're using the <host>:<display> form of DISPLAY and
> > the X server computer
> > doesn't know its own name...
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Wez @ RealVNC Ltd.
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com
> > > [mailto:vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com] On Behalf Of E Mail
> > > Sent: 17 January 2007 00:20
> > > To: VNC-List "at" realvnc.com
> > > Subject: Different Hosts in different locations, behaving
> > > differently...
> > >
> > > Hi all...
> > >
> > > Yep, from subject that shouldn't be too surprising... but...
> > >
> > > I am told (by sysadmins) the hosts are configured the same...
> > >
> > > Both are Sun Solaris v880 boxes:
> > > $ uname -a
> > > SunOS e08k230 5.8 Generic_117350-28 sun4u sparc
> > SUNW,Sun-Fire-880
> > >
> > > Both are using same xstartup file:
> > > $ more xstartup
> > > #!/bin/sh
> > >
> > > [ -r $HOME/.Xresources ] && xrdb $HOME/.Xresources
> > > xsetroot -solid grey
> > > vncconfig -iconic &
> > > #xterm -geometry 80x24+10+10 -ls -title "$VNCDESKTOP
> > Desktop" &
> > > PATH=$PATH:/usr/dt/bin:/usr/X/bin
> > > export PATH
> > > /usr/dt/bin/Xsession
> > > vncnote
> > > kill `cat ${vncpidfile}`
> > >
> > > One box, of course, all is well... the other, the VNC server
> > > starts, but
> > > when I connect the viewer, the screen is grey, but in the
> > > upper left corner,
> > > i see what looks like the cpu/disk monitor is displayed...
> > > that is all.
> > >
> > > I have run out of things to compare. I pointed all this out
> > > to the admin,
> > > but they still claim the boxes are the same... but
> > this seems to
> > > tell me something
> > > is different...
> > >
> > > >From the 'bad' host, I am able to successfully export the
> > > Xsession window,
> > > so it does not appear to be a display issue at all.
> > >
> > > Anyone have ideas?
> > >
> > > Thanks!!!
> > > Ray
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