VNC on Solaris - connection refused

Sean Kamath kamath "at" geekoids.com
Thu Mar 22 05:27:00 2007


On Mar 21, 2007, at 11:37 AM, Glenn wrote:
> /home/glenn/.vnc/xstartup: xsetroot: not found
> /home/glenn/.vnc/xstartup: xterm: not found
> /home/glenn/.vnc/xstartup: twm: not found

So your VNC server fired up, tried to run the above, and instead of  
twm not exiting, xstartup exited, and your session died.

You need to make sure that /usr/X/bin is in the path ('PATH=$PATH:/ 
usr/X/bin' in xstartup), and that you've actually loaded the packages  
that have the X binaries.

Sean