Hi All,

I've got a lot of great information from these forums since I started dabbling with Linux. Unfortunately I can't find the answer to this one:

I have opensuse 10.3 installed on a PC that I run headerless in a corner of my garage. I do a standard install and then unplug the peripherals and leave just the power and network cable attached. I previously did this with Mandriva without any problems.

While I can connect fine to the Gnome desktop via VNC when the monitor is attached, as soon as I boot without I get the black cross and rootweave background. I'm assuming that Gnome is failing to start.

I'm running VNC via xinetd on port 5901. This uses my user id - but I'm not sure where the service picks up it's start-up config.

Any thoughts would be appreciated!

Neil

Hi,

are you able to ssh to that machine.In that case, just check whether xinetd is listening on the port 5901.[netstat -tanp|grep 5901]

Also check if gdm is running and is configured to have remote access.Goto yast and search for remote administration and enable it.

Thanks

Sridhar

ksri07091983,

Thanks very much for your help. I'll give it a try.

Neil