Nutty VNC problem

[dankydoo]

Ok,

This is in KDE by the way.
I had a beta of mandrake 9.1 and vncserver worked perfectly. No problems. Then I wiped my HD and installed mandrake 9.1 RC2. Install went without a hitch, and when I run vncserver everything starts up prefectly. But when I try to connect (even from localhost), all I get is the background of the desktop and a the cursor changes to a clock and back and forth between a clock and an arrow, you can for a split second see where the kde splash screen is starting to come up, then it disappears again, there is no kicker menu, or anything. If I goto my home directory, and look and the .xsession-errors file, it shows Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":3.0".
Xlib: extension "RENDER" missing on display ":3.0". over and over in the file. It's like the x server is starting, then it dies, then it tries to restart then dies. My main desktop runs without a hitch......any input on this would be great.....thanks in advanace I love this board it is great!

dankydoo

[dankydoo]

I tried commenting out the Load "GLX" line in the XF86Config-4 file, but it didnt' do anything for me......hmmm....still trying..

[dankydoo]

ok, I got it to load a window manager, but I had to change it to IceWM, which, in all honesty, is probobaly better to run remotely anyways, but I can't for the life of me figure out why KDE won't fire up remotely....


dankydoo

[Icarus]

What does your .vnc/xstartup look like?

If KDE works on your desktop ok, but not when using VNC this is the place we want to look

[dankydoo]

more interesting updates....

I installed this exact distro (mdk 9.1 RC2) on my laptop, and it does the same thing, and is solved my changing my default window manager to IceWm, I am wondering however, that if the problem isn't caused by the effects that I have turned on in the menus, I have them fading, and I wonder if on my host machine it is openGl accelerated in some way, and that is why it is griping about glx. I haven't tried turning off the settings because icewm is just fine, but I'll let you know....plus here is my xstartup file:

exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc


That's it....

thanks,

dankydoo

[Icarus]

That's a bit sparse...
Here's what the one I use from a Red Hat 7.2 machine to use Gnome

#!/bin/sh

xrdb $HOME/.Xresources
xsetroot -solid grey
xterm -geometry 80x24+10+10 -ls -title "$VNCDESKTOP Desktop" &
#twm &
gnome-session &


The VNC documentation tells what these all mean...

[kerberos2k]

Almost there...

When I start the vncserver on my RedHat 8.0 machine, I get the server to start. I can connect from my WinXP machine, and almost get a complete desktop.

Actually, all I get is a functional terminal. The actual desktop is solid grey, as it says in the "xstartup" file.

Mhadi,

My xstartup file is exactly set up as yours...

Any pointers? I can't find anything in the documentation...

Thanks

Kerberos

[dankydoo]

all right, I looked at my xinitrc, and then it called another file called xsession, and there is a huge script in there......

I think I'll be content with IceWm, and I think I'll install FluxBox too..hehe


thanks for all the help!!


dankydoo

[Icarus]

Originally posted by kerberos2k
Almost there...

When I start the vncserver on my RedHat 8.0 machine, I get the server to start. I can connect from my WinXP machine, and almost get a complete desktop.

Actually, all I get is a functional terminal. The actual desktop is solid grey, as it says in the "xstartup" file.

mahdi,

My xstartup file is exactly set up as yours...

Any pointers? I can't find anything in the documentation...

Thanks

Kerberos I got this also when trying it on a Mandrake machine from a WinME. I don't think it's a OS problem but a setting one.

I'll let you know what I find out about it tonight.

[lrhogusa]

I thought by copying a generic .Xclients and Xclients-defualt to all my cloned boxes was the answer to get rid of my gray screens and kde would work. Nope! Some of the boxes were getting the gray screen anyway. My head hurts.

In one of the bad boxes, I removed /home/user/.vnc directory and my .Xclients and Xclients-default files. Then I made a file in /etc/sysconfig called 'desktop' that has the following in it

DESKTOP="KDE"

That's it, nothing else.

I then remotely (ssh) log in, no telnet. Start up a new vncserver which rebuilds .vnc in my directory. Then vnc goes looking for what desktop to open and it eventually finds /etc/sysconfig/desktop owned by root:root:644. I take note of my desktop number, exit out and then back in with vncviewer.

I don't like having a desktop opened by me on the remote machine and then trying to vnc into my :1 desktop. I believe you'll start seeing dcop errors. Plus, I always log in remotely to start up a vncserver so I don't have two desktops opened at once and get those dcop errors.

Rambling Roy

[lrhogusa]

I forgot to state I am working with RedHat7.3 with the latest vncserver rpm for RH7.3.

RPM version is 3.3.3r2-28.2

Roy