Hi Guys,

I have a weird problem with VNC Server in Fedora 8.

I set up a server and moved it to my remote office, I am using VNC to connect to the desktop.

I can connect to the system fine and use all the icons on the desktop of gnome but none of the dropdown menus work and it does not show programs that are running in the taskbar at the bottom.

I booted the server without a keyboard or mouse physically plugged into the box and did a test connection but did not test everything extensively prior to going home and trying to connect.

When I got home and connected, I discovered there was no access to any of the dropdown menus 'Applications' 'Places' 'System' or the firefox icon on the top bar adjacent to the menus.

The virtual guests on the system can access those menus fine, it's just the host OS that has the problem.

Is it the fact that there is no keyboard or mouse plugged into the system when I booted ?

Any ideas ?

I've got this exact same problem using VNC in Fedora 8 - does anyone have a solution?

Thanks in advance, Duane

I have the same problem.

However after a reboot, the main menu was responsive, until I edited it (added a new menu item). Since then it is unresponsive until I reboot the machine.

my .vnc/xstartup contains:
#!/bin/sh

# Uncomment the following two lines for normal desktop:
unset SESSION_MANAGER
exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc

[ -x /etc/vnc/xstartup ] && exec /etc/vnc/xstartup
[ -r $HOME/.Xresources ] && xrdb $HOME/.Xresources
xsetroot -solid grey
vncconfig -iconic &
xterm -geometry 80x24+10+10 -ls -title "$VNCDESKTOP Desktop" &
twm &


my .vnc/ log file has the following on my first connection (where the menu was responsive)

localuser:root being added to access control list
SESSION_MANAGER=local/unix:/tmp/.ICE-unix/3237
** Message: Could not connect to power manager: Could not get owner of name 'org.gnome.PowerManager': no such name
** Message: Could not connect to power manager: Could not get owner of name 'org.gnome.PowerManager': no such name

** (gnome-panel:3447): WARNING **: Failed to establish a connection with GDM: No such file or directory

Thu Jul 24 06:48:34 2008
Connections: accepted: 192.168.12.49::3142
SConnection: Client needs protocol version 3.8
SConnection: Client requests security type VncAuth(2)

Thu Jul 24 06:49:30 2008
VNCSConnST: Server default pixel format depth 16 (16bpp) little-endian rgb565
VNCSConnST: Client pixel format depth 8 (8bpp) rgb max 3,3,3 shift 4,2,0
VNCSConnST: Client pixel format depth 16 (16bpp) little-endian rgb565
** Message: Could not connect to power manager: Could not get owner of name 'org.gnome.PowerManager': no such name