Trying to install a GUI & VNC on a CentOS 5.1 server

cdn415 · 08-16-2008, 12:12 PM

Hello,

I have spent quite a lot of time trying to install a GUI and VNC on my remote CentOS 5.1 dedicated server. I have followed the guide at http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/VNC-Server and I have still not been able to get it working properly. Whenever I connect to the vnc server for my user on :1 it is just a gray screen with an X as a cursor (no xterm or anything). I have tried changing 'twn' in the xstartup for my user to 'startx', 'gnome-session', and even tried installing kde and using 'startkde'. No matter how I change it I get the same gray screen. I have looked into the vnc log file and it gives me this error:

Code:

Could not init font path element /usr/share/X11/fonts/OTF, removing from list!
Could not init font path element /usr/share/X11/fonts/CID/, removing from list!
localuser:chris being added to access control list
No profile for user 'chris' found
/usr/bin/gnome-session: error while loading shared libraries: libfontconfig.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling fontconfig using yum but it has not fixed the problem.

Thanks for your help.
Chris

BallsOfSteel · 08-17-2008, 09:05 PM

Shouldn't VNC be in the repositories? It is with Fedora at least... Cent and Fedora are basically the same thing except Cent is more stable. You should just be able to do 'yum install vnc' and then 'yum install gnome' (or maybe 'yum install gdm') for a GUI. Maybe I'm wrong, though...

Brandon

billymayday · 08-17-2008, 09:16 PM

yum groupinstall "GNOME Desktop Environment"

is the best way to install gnome and everything it needs.

Try that first.