[OpenIndiana-discuss] Xvnc woes

[Hans J. Albertsson]

And I found it.. A misspelling of an argument in the failed machine.

/Redfaced and groaning...
/ Hans

Xvnc has no log file configured. Is there a way to do that, when used as 
a service in SMF?

On 2013-03-08 14:26, Hans J. Albertsson wrote:
> I should point out I have only the xvnc and the tigervnc packages 
> installed, i e what seems to be the "base alternatives" for Xvnc
>
>
> On 2013-03-08 12:25, Hans J. Albertsson wrote:
>> I've tried to use the USE methodology here, but it comes up with a 
>> big blank...
>>
>> I have these two machines, as far as I can determine identical in all 
>> or at least any "important aspect"... I think.
>>
>> I have added the various entries in /etc/gdm/custom.conf, started and 
>> restarted and restarted and disabled and enabled uzw and so on and so 
>> forth.
>>
>> From a third host I now do
>>
>> vncviewer IPADDRESS
>>
>> for the respective host.
>>
>> To one it all works. Seemingly in a stable manner. I have tested for 
>> a few days.
>>
>> On the other host it doesn't work. Not at all. I get
>>
>> vncviewer <address witheld to protect the strange>
>>
>> TigerVNC Viewer for X version 1.0.1
>> Copyright (C) 2002-2005 RealVNC Ltd.
>> Copyright (C) 2000-2006 TightVNC Group
>> Copyright (C) 2004-2009 Peter Astrand for Cendio AB
>> See http://www.tigervnc.org for information on TigerVNC.
>>
>> Fri Mar  8 11:53:16 2013
>>  CConn:       connected to host <address witheld to protect the 
>> strange> port 5900
>>  main:        End of stream
>>
>> all the time.
>>
>> gdm remains up, as does xvnc-inetd. There are no processes that can 
>> be associated in any way with the connection attempt.
>>
>> Ideas anyone?? What might be the problem?? I guess some config detail 
>> somewhere, but I'd much rather know what the problem was than just do 
>> a clean install and see if a pristine system would fare better...
>>
>> I tried nmap -A -v to both, and the difference is entirely due to the 
>> visibly successful vnc sessions to the functional one.
>>
>> I hate these Huh, WHAT??? sessions with computers.
>>
>>
>>
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