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Old 11-23-2005, 06:19 AM   #1
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starting vnc couldn't find "xauth" on your PATH.


hello,

I am trying to start the vnc server and with vncserver \-start and this is the message I get,

couldn't find "xauth" on your PATH.

Can you help? Thank you

verlossen
 
Old 11-23-2005, 07:06 PM   #2
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xauth's location needs to be added to the environment variable, PATH. When you are able to execute a program on the CLI without being in the directory for that program, that is PATH at work. To view PATH:

Code:
echo $PATH
Now you need to locate xauth so you can put that directory in the comma delimited PATH:

Code:
whereis xauth ,or, which xauth
Found the directory? Good, add it to path:

Code:
PATH=$PATH:/path/to/dir-containing-xauth && export PATH
That should have modified PATH, do it as root too for good measure.
 
Old 11-25-2005, 09:22 AM   #3
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Hello, thank you for your help, I followed your instructions, this is what I got..... which is my path? which is the directory, ?? Sorry I am a newbie...


login as: root
Sent username "root"
root@192.168.65.184's password:
Last login: Sat Nov 26 05:53:52 2005 from 192.168.6.34
[root@localhost ~]# echo $PATH
/usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/root/bin
[root@localhost ~]# which xauth
-bash: which: command not found
[root@localhost ~]# whereis xauth
xauth:
[root@localhost ~]#


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Old 11-28-2005, 09:49 PM   #4
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It appears xauth is not installed, try one more search before we parse through every file on your OS to see if xauth is installed:

Code:
# locate xauth
Nothing, dang, last search before installing xauth:

Code:
# find / -name *xauth*
This is your PATH: /usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/root/bin
It's a variable in the shell, see all variable by typing "env". So, your new variable will include everything that was in it, plus the path-to-xauth appended to the end.
 
Old 11-29-2005, 02:22 AM   #5
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Hi , Thank you for your reply.

I typed what you said "locate xauth
" and i got this:

/usr/share/man/man8/pam_xauth.8.gz
/usr/share/doc/pam-0.77/txts/README.pam_xauth
/lib/security/pam_xauth.so
Does it mean xauth is installed in my system?

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Old 08-18-2006, 06:32 PM   #6
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I have the exact same problem

Hi everyone,
Im new to this forum and would really appreciate if you could post the fix that you were working on above.

I have the exact same problem when I try connecting to vncserver on linux.

Your help would be great.

I get

/usr/share/man/man8/pam_xauth.8.gz
/usr/share/zsh/4.2.0/functions/_xauth
/usr/share/doc/pam-0.77/txts/README.pam_xauth
/lib/security/pam_xauth.so


Thank you

Ross

Last edited by rossx; 08-18-2006 at 06:33 PM.
 
Old 08-21-2006, 04:57 PM   #7
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Fixed it now - want to post this for others

Hi everyone,

After getting the error message above about xauth. I looked about for a bit and found that I needed to install xauth.

I did this by typing yum install xorg-x11-xauth

Once the install has been made, type vncserver and it should ask for the password.

Hope this helps any newbies like myself.

Cheers
 
  


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