[ydl-gen] VNC server problems

Longman, Bill longman at sharplabs.com
Fri Oct 14 17:44:50 MDT 2005


Eric, did you run vncpasswd?

> Hello all, I'm trying to figure out a VNC server problem. I 
> run 'vncserver' from the command line. When I try to login 
> whatever client I try fails (including the "Remote Desktop 
> Connection" client in YDL).
> 
> In the log for vncserver the following appears:
> 
> Xvnc version 4.0 - built Jan  8 2005 16:57:17 Underlying X 
> server release 60700000, The X.Org Foundation
> 
> 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!
> No VNC extension on display :1
> X connection to :1.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
> 
> I'm wondering if it's one of three things:
> 1. vncserver is broken in YDL 4.0.1 (doubtful); 2. a 
> configuration file has gone sour (I've deleted all files in 
> ~/.vnc/, repeatedly); 3. because I changed NICs a firewall 
> has become active on the YDL server and is preventing 
> connections from happening?


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