[ydl-gen] VNC server problems

Eric Dunbar eric.dunbar at gmail.com
Fri Oct 14 20:03:42 MDT 2005


Thanks for the response, I was wondering if the list had died ;-).

No I haven't, but I don't think the password is the issue. [update]
just tried running it. No improvement in situation. Deleted the ~/.vnc
directory and started fresh. No improvement either.

>From the log file:

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

Eric.

On 10/14/05, Longman, Bill <longman at sharplabs.com> wrote:
> 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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