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Old 08-22-2007, 05:24 PM   #1
brettreyu
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need VNC help on CentOS 5


Hey All,

First post here but I desperately need some help.

On a new CentOS 5 install I am trying to get VNC working where it will allow users to access the login screen on the server using VNCViewer. I have ran into multiple problems but have it isolated down to one problem. Here is the steps that I took.

1. Edited /etc/sysconfig/vncservers to specify the 2 users that I am granting access to 1:user1 2:user2

2. set a password for each user using vncpasswd

3. Edited the /home/username/.vnc/xstartup file to set up a persistent desktop.

4. When I run service vncserver start I receive the following:

[root@hostname]# service vncserver restart
Shutting down VNC server: 1:user1 2:user2 [ OK ]
Starting VNC server: 1:user1 xauth: (stdin):1: bad display name "hostname:1" in "add" command

New 'hostname:1 (user1)' desktop is hostname:1

Starting applications specified in /home/user1/.vnc/xstartup
Log file is /home/user1/.vnc/hostname:1.log

2:user2 xauth: (stdin):1: bad display name "hostname:2" in "add" command

New 'hostname:2 (user2)' desktop is hostname:2

Starting applications specified in /home/user2/.vnc/xstartup
Log file is /home/user2/.vnc/hostname:2.log

[ OK ]

Hostname,user1, and user2 have been changed for security reasons.

Here is what the VNC log file for user1 has to say

/tmp/.ICE-unix/14900

** (gnome-session:14900): WARNING **: Host name lookup failure on localhost.
Window manager warning: Log level 32: could not find XKB extension.
Passkey agent registration failed: Passkey agent already exists
WARNING:root:Could not open log file (/tmp/sealert.log) - using stderr
Introspect error: A security policy in place prevents this sender from sending this message to this recipient, see message bus configuration file (rejected message had interface "org.freedesktop.DBus.Introspectable" member "Introspect" error name "(unset)" destination "edu.duke.linux.yum")
Unable to connect to yum-updatesd. Please ensure that the yum-updatesd
package is installed and that the service is running.

** (eggcups:14965): WARNING **: IPP request failed with status 1030

** (eggcups:14965): WARNING **: IPP request failed with status 1030
Initializing nautilus-open-terminal extension

** (nm-applet:14989): WARNING **: <WARNING> nma_dbus_init (): nma_dbus_init() could not acquire its service. dbus_bus_acquire_service() says: 'Connection ":1.64" is not allowed to own the service "org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerInfo" due to security policies in the configuration file'


Any advise is greatly appreciated. Thanks.
 
Old 08-22-2007, 08:27 PM   #2
brettreyu
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I can now VNC in(firewall problem before) however now when I am completely logged out of the system when I successfully authenticate through VNC it is nothing but a grey screen. Any ideas?
 
Old 05-30-2009, 04:55 PM   #3
streetbiker
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Hi this is an old thread, but for the sake of completing it, you can find the answers about how to get beyond the "gray vnc screen" here (ok the forum won't let me post a URL for security reasons, so go to the "virtuatopia" website and search for "Running and Connecting to VNC Servers on a Xen Guest (domainU) System" and there you will find a possible fix to get past grey screen.

What it says there is that you have to edit the /home/username/.vnc/xstartup file as follows: uncomment these two lines:

# unset SESSION_MANAGER
# exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc

and add at the end of the file the line (for a gnome desktop on vnc):

gnome-session &

-----
#!/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" &

gnome-session &
------

then of course restart vnc on the server and reconnect from fresh session on the client. By the way, the "vncviewer" from the command line can be buggy. There are many free 3rd party vnc viewer type tools which work better/look better.

Last edited by streetbiker; 05-30-2009 at 04:57 PM.
 
  


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