I remotely SSH into my FC5 box, using a PC workstation with SecureCRT and eXceed. The basics seems to work, because if I start xclock from my SSH client, I see the graphical clock on my PC in a new windows (so X serving ok).

However, when I try "startx", I see a bunch of message onscreen (no major errors) but the graphical desktop never starts. Any ideas? The screen message are below.

Thanks,
MD

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[root@firewall ~]# startx
xauth: creating new authority file /root/.serverauth.27289


X Window System Version 7.0.0
Release Date: 21 December 2005
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 7.0
Build Operating System:Linux 2.6.9-34.ELsmp i686Red Hat, Inc.
Current Operating System: Linux firewall.ocg.ca 2.6.17-1.2139_FC5_VIA #1 Sun Jul 2 21:49:35 EDT 2006 i686
Build Date: 30 June 2006
Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Fri Jul 21 17:33:13 2006
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
SESSION_MANAGER=local/firewall.ocg.ca:/tmp/.ICE-unix/27310

** (nautilus:27357): WARNING **: Can not get _NET_WORKAREA

** (nautilus:27357): WARNING **: Can not determine workarea, guessing at layout
Unable to open desktop file /usr/share/applications/openoffice.org-1.9-writer.desktop for panel launcher: Error reading file '/usr/share/applications/openoffice.org-1.9-writer.desktop': File not found
Unable to open desktop file /usr/share/applications/openoffice.org-1.9-impress.desktop for panel launcher: Error reading file '/usr/share/applications/openoffice.org-1.9-impress.desktop': File not found
Unable to open desktop file /usr/share/applications/openoffice.org-1.9-calc.desktop for panel launcher: Error reading file '/usr/share/applications/openoffice.org-1.9-calc.desktop': File not found

** (eggcups:27373): WARNING **: IPP request failed with status 1030

** (eggcups:27373): WARNING **: IPP request failed with status 1030
id: (null)
handle: 11
connection: (nil)
properties:
((name "RestartCommand") (type "LISTofARRAY8") (value "bluez-pin") (value "--dbus"))
id: (null)
handle: 10
connection: (nil)
properties:
((name "RestartCommand") (type "LISTofARRAY8") (value "krb5-auth-dialog"))
id: (null)
handle: 8
connection: (nil)
properties:
((name "RestartCommand") (type "LISTofARRAY8") (value "nm-applet") (value "--sm-disable"))

Why would you want to? You already have X running locally, you can't start it again. And if you try to run "startx" remotely, it will try to start the GUI physically on the remote machine, which is not what you want.

I want to see the graphical desktop on my remote PC. (Ideally KDE) How would I do that?

sometype of vnc tightvnc maybe.

whenever using ssh, use the -X flag for X forwarding. then you can run apps on remote computers, locally. Here is an example.

ssh -Xl username hostname

You can also change the configuration file of ssh, so that x forwarding is enabled everytime you ssh without having to give the -X flag. If you want to see the entire desktop with ssh, run this command after you are connected with ssh and have X forwarding.

startx -- :1

You need to start X on display :1 because you probably already have X running on display :0.

Window manager warning: Log level 32: could not find XKB extension.

** (eggcups:5904): WARNING **: IPP request failed with status 1030

** (eggcups:5904): WARNING **: IPP request failed with status 1030
Initializing nautilus-open-terminal extension
Unable to open desktop file /usr/share/applications/redhat-email.desktop for panel launcher: No such file or directory
Unable to open desktop file /usr/share/applications/openoffice.org-1.9-writer.desktop for panel launcher: No such file or directory
Unable to open desktop file /usr/share/applications/openoffice.org-1.9-impress.desktop for panel launcher: No such file or directory
Unable to open desktop file /usr/share/applications/openoffice.org-1.9-calc.desktop for panel launcher: No such file or directory

Have you tried freenx.