Dears ,

Kindly note that while connecting to one of my servers using VNC client "TightVNC" , An error message appears after typing the password saying "Authentication failure" , when checking the sessions logs under /root/.vnc/"Servername":1.log , i found the below.


Xvnc version 4.0 - built Feb 21 2008 11:36:15
Underlying X server release 60801000, The X.Org Foundation


Mon Aug 23 14:39:24 2010
vncext: VNC extension running!
vncext: Listening for VNC connections on port 5902
vncext: Listening for HTTP connections on port 5802
vncext: created VNC server for screen 0
error opening security policy file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xserver/SecurityPolicy
Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/, removing from list!
Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/, removing from list!

so , can you please help.

Best regards,
Wael ElMasry

Have you tried disabling SELinux? If not then edit your /etc/selinux/config file to include the line "SELINUX=disabled". You might have to comment out the line "SELINUX=permissive" or "SELINUX=enforcing". Then reboot. Hope this helps.

selinux is already disabled

The only other thing that occurs to me is you might be using the wrong password for the VNC server.

Hello,

Running Ubuntu, I have installed vnc4server.
When I start vncserver, I have the following error messages in ~/.vnc/server:1.log :

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Couldn't open RGB_DB '/etc/X11/rgb'

Xvnc Free Edition 4.1.1
Copyright (C) 2002-2005 RealVNC Ltd.
See http://www.realvnc.com for information on VNC.
Underlying X server release 70000000, The X.Org Foundation


Sun Feb 13 02:01:52 2011
vncext: VNC extension running!
vncext: Listening for VNC connections on port 5901
vncext: created VNC server for screen 0
error opening security policy file /etc/X11/xserver/SecurityPolicy
Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/X11/TTF/, removing from list!
Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/X11/OTF, removing from list!
Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/X11/CID/, removing from list!
exec: 5: /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc: Permission denied
FreeFontPath: FPE "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/" refcount is 2, should be 1; fixing.

When I connect to the server using vncviewer, I have a unusable grey desktop.
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NOTES:
- there is no '/etc/X11/xserver/' folder
- there is no 'SecurityPolicy' anywhere in the system
- the full path to '/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc' is readable by anybody

The vncserver is thus not usable.
TIA for your help.

DanBE

I'm having the exact same problem with Linux Mint 12 and unable to find any solution out there. Any help greatly appreciated!