Hi all,

I have a RHEL 5.0 vnc server. It is running on runlevel 5. When I try to connect with vnc client on Windows machine, it connects with no graphics. A terminal comes look like runlevel 3. When I check the run level on the terminal, it shows 5. I have both desktop (Gnome & KDE) installed on that server. Any suggestion?


Thanks in advance!

Do you edit your ~/.vnc/xstartup file yet? Just remove comment before the 4th and 5th lines of this file:
Initially looks like:

#!/bin/sh

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

The file will look like this:
#!/bin/sh

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

Open other terminal (by SSH) and kill your current vncserver session by:
$vncserver -kill <Computer>:<ID>
vncserver print <Computer>:<ID> when you start vncserver, or you can create new vncserver session.

Reconnect to check if it's work or not?

I worked on your suggestion and finally able to connect with full X feature. Thanks a ton for all your support.

I modified the file $home/.vnc/xstartup looks like below:

#!/bin/sh

OSNAME=`/bin/uname -s`
if [ ${OSNAME} = Linux ]
then
exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc
vncconfig -nowin &
else
xrdb $HOME/.Xdefaults
xrdb $HOME/.Xresources
echo 'dtsession*wmStartupCommand: /usr/dt/bin/dtwm' | xrdb -merge
exec /usr/dt/bin/Xsession &
vncconfig -nowin &
exec xset fp= tcp/localhost:7100
fi

Thanks
Deepak Tiwari