how to install vnc on a headless/monitor-less Ubuntu 10.04 ?i googled A LOT i couldn't find a well explained guide. i am not sure if this is the right place to post the thread. if it is not move the thread.
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Well xubuntu wont boot without a monitor. I booted freenas without the monitor and plugged it back in and got a signal. So it isnt the bios.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI'm setting up a headless unit with Xubuntu (lucid), VirtualBox and Vino. It works fine except that when I unplug the monitor and reboot I can't connect via VNC. I can ssh in just fine. If I try to plug in a monitor to see the display I get no signal. My assumption is that Ubuntu detected no monitor and decided to ask me something or act differently.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI've got a headless server (32 bit 9.04/9.10, can't remember) that started refusing SSH and HTTP connections a few days ago, and I'm just getting around to hopefully fixing it. The problem is that I can't even connect to the darn thing. I've plugged in a mouse, keyboard, and monitor, but the monitor tells me that it has no signal. I know the monitor works with the computer, as I used the same one to set up the server.
Just for kicks, I even tried to put in a live CD, but that didn't help. Any ideas on how I can connect to this thing?
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I have an old CPU with me that I'd like to convert into a server. It has no keyboard, no mouse, no monitor. It has a dvd drive, a CD-RW drive. How do I go about installing Fedora on this? I've researched some and found that kickstarts and vnc may be the way to go. Since I've never done this before, and never used either kickstarts or vnc before, can someone please provide a detailed guide? I'd be happy if the additional hard ware required (switch? hub?) etc. could also be mentioned.
View 8 Replies View RelatedI am running a server that is mostly headless, but does run the Gnome environment (I have ubuntu-desktop installed). I usually administer it via VNC over SSH. My problem is that when I reboot the system over SSH, the system fails to fully load the GUI, which prevents me from connecting via VNC (although SSH still works).
When I connected a monitor and rebooted, the system booted up fine. It appears that the GUI will not load without an attached monitor, which never happened before in previous Ubuntu versions. I do use many commands but prefer a GUI for certain tasks and visualization of my work since my system has the resources to spare. Running Lucid Lynx
I find myself in the strange position of having an old P4 system that I want to throw Fedora 10 on - it's a considerable upgrade from the old 866Mhz P3 that I've been using to do some number crunching on. (It's a personal project, but it's CPU intensive, so the P4 is a welcome upgrade.) My problem with it is that the motherboard's AGP socket is dead, and I can't find a PCI graphics card, so I'm trying to do a totally headless install - I have no idea what errors may be shown, if any. All I know is that whatever I've tried up till now hasn't worked.
1. Remove the hard drive from the P4, stick it into a spare, semi working system (AMD Athlon, RAM isn't working too well), install F10 on the hard drive, remove the drive, put it back into the P4, and let it boot. Results: Nothing. No DHCP announcement, so I don't know if it's done anything.
2. Try a variation of a PXE boot using the vnc parameter. I've copied the instructions here with no luck. Tried it using a nearby mirror (mirror.nus.edu.sg) as well as method=cdrom, with no luck on either. Results: Also nothing.Should I give up on this, or is there anything else I should try?
I have a tray-loading iMac G3 that, after installing Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) using the alternate installation cd, will go to a blank screen after booting. I know there is a way to fix it so that the horizontal and vertical refresh rates are correct to display what I need, but once it boots to a blank screen, and i go ctrl-alt-f1, it prompts me for a user name and password. I am 100% sure that I am typing in both correctly as i set them during the alternate install process, as I've done it twice so far, and caps wasn't on and I typed and retyped them to make sure they were correct. No matter what I try (even username: root, password: root, or username: admin, password: admin) it says login incorrect.
I saw that you can check the current user names and reset passwords by going into recovery mode, which I read you can get into by pressing shift or esc on boot, but on separate runs i tapped each key all the way from turn-on to the blank screen and no such option to go into recovery mode came up. Also, I try booting from the Live Installation CD, and when it boots to the blank screen, and i type ctrl-alt-f1, it gives me a neverending shower of Authentification failure's (as in they keep appearing down the screen, I can't type anything because it becomes interrupted by more Authentication errors). I'm at the end of my chain here. Any help would be appreciated. Either by getting me into recovery mode to fiddle with the passwords, getting it so that it takes the user name and password I set to it, or figuring out why the Live CD machine-guns me with Identification errors.
I recently bought myself a 22" widescreen LG monitor and am running Ubuntu 8.10 with it. Trouble is when I set the screen resolution to 1920*1080 which is the actual resolution of the monitor it shrinks the text and web pages to miniscule proportions.Text becomes tiny and web pages with firefox display as a column occupying about a third of the screen.I have to decrease the resolution to 1024*768 which makes web pages display better (at least they take up the whole screen)
Is there some way to install the proprietory drivers that came with the monitor? They are an .inf file on the supplied disc.I have a Nividia graphics card a GE Force FX 5200.I also have the 173.14.12 Nividia driver installed if this means anything to anyone.
the problem is: my monitor turns off when I want to install ubuntu! t's really pissing me off right now.Explanation:right now, I'm using Ubuntu 9.10, and I want to installUbuntu 10.04, so I made a bootable usb, and i booted my computeron this usb. so far, there's nothing going wrong. First, I had to select a language for Ubuntu, so I did that.After that, I had to choose want i want to do with ubuntu,so I selected (of course) "install Ubuntu".Then i got the loading screen, and after a short time,suddenly my monitor turns off
View 1 Replies View RelatedSo my computer works reasonably fast running XP (old 3GHz processor with 512RAM), but every so often it simply freezes. I've tried all I can to fix this, but sometimes when I boot up XP it'll get to the window's logo then freeze, sometimes it'll get all the way to the desktop and then freeze, and sometimes it'll start up, run fine for an hour or two then freeze. By freeze, I mean the screen doesn't update, the keyboard and mouse do nothing. Updating NVIDIA drivers doesn't seem to help - some make it worse! So I've had enough, and decided to download Wubi to try Ubuntu on it. I'm not ready to remove windows just yet (lots of data on this machine) and so I don't really want to try dual-booting yet.
Wubi downloads and runs in Windows fine. When I go to restart, after picking Ubuntu from the menu it shows a little text (I think about installation, and press Esc for menu) then my monitor gives a "No Signal" message. So I try restarting (pressing the button), and pressing Esc to bring up the menu. I tried all 5ish options, and "Safe graphics mode" and "ACPI workarounds" seem to last longer, but the same error occurs, before it has even prompted me (still doing its own thing). So I can get up to GRUB, and even get into the grub> prompt. I tried adding irqpoll and/or all_generic_ide to the boot thing (pressing e in the grub menu), but that hasn't helped. I'm unsure of how to find what hardware my computer has (only computer, don't have receipt), but I know "NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT".
I tried installing Ubuntu via the latest Wubi on my HP machine; AMD64 processor, NVIDIA GeForce 6150 LE graphics card. After restarting and selecting Ubuntu, my monitor (Viewsonic) told me it had no input, and proceeded to stand itself by. The computer sat there, turned on with no monitor, for about half an hour, and when I came back, windows was up. I tried restarting into Ubuntu again, got to the Grub menu, and selected Ubuntu before the same thing occurred. This time I didn't wait, but hard restarted it after a minute oh waiting. When I tried starting Ubuntu in Safe Graphics mode, I got through the initial bash bootup instructions before this occurred.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI'd like to install Ubuntu 10.04 but unfortunately I have and old Samsung low res (800x600) monitor and when I boot with the live Lucid USB pendrive the screen goes crazy and remains there forever.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI have been using Ubuntu for a while now on my netbook, however I have an older HP dv5 laptop that hasn't been used in a couple of years that I would like to format and install a linux distro on. Problem is that it has a very broken LCD screen and I had been previously using an external monitor with it. I had tried to install Ubuntu 9.04 on it at one point but could not progress very far into the installation due to the external monitor. I had also tried using the non-graphical installer but had little success with it as well.
I had thought of removing the HDD from the laptop and putting it into another of my laptops and installing it that way, but the specs are different between the two laptops and I figured that it would not work properly once the HDD was switched back to the older laptop. Is there any way to use an external monitor to install a newer version of Ubuntu? or perhaps is there another distro that is easily installed using an external monitor? My plan is to eventually remove the broken screen all together and only have the external monitor connected, the broken screen is a bit unsightly.
I started with a newly built system using an ASUS P8 H67-M LE Series MB, that has Intel's Sandy Bridge
The CPU is an i5
I installed the 64 bit Ubuntu, 11.04
In the Control Center, I go to the Monitor Preferences, and all the settings are grayed out.
Monitor in On is set.
Resolution, Refresh Rate and Rotation are disabled.
If I click the Apply button, I get a pop up window with the message:
The selected configuration for displays could not be applied required virtual size does not fit available size ....
The Detect Monitors button is enabled, but clicking has no effect. No monitors are identified.
How do I get the monitor settings working?
I've just installed Karmic and get an Out Of Range message on my monitor when starting.I had to use the alternate install in order to get Karmic on there in the first place.I have an Nvidia GeForce 7600 GS, and a BenQ FP767-12 TFT.
Output of lspci;01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G73 [GeForce 7600 GS] (rev a2)Not sure how to get my xorg.conf as I can only get to a shell. Here are (what I think are) the important bits;
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Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen 0 "screen0" 0 0
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Section "Module"
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I did a fresh install of Lucid Lynx, and now when I start up it shows a blinking cursor for a second or so and then my monitor shows an "Input signal out of range" error. The same thing has happened before, and I was able to fix it by editing the boot options in grub to include 'nomodeset'. However, this time the usual grub loading screen where I would normally press esc to edit the boot options doesn't appear. (Spamming esc doesn't seem to work either.) If it matters (which I have an odd feeling that it does) I partitioned the hard drive into an ext4 partition that mounts at / , a swap partition, and another ext4 partition that mounts at /home . I attached a screenshot of what GParted says about it.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI did a LiveCD to USB install, following the directions I found at [url] When I went to reboot to the USB stick, all I get is a black Screen (monitor is on and lit, just nothing on the display) No cursor or command prompt. I've tried holding shift to bring up the GRUB menu, changing splash quiet to nomodeset, or just adding nomodeset after the splash quiet thing. I've even tried xforcevesa instead of nomodeset still black screen. Looking at the logs nothing is current as of the last time I tried to boot the computer, it's strictly what was written when I installed it to the stick. Other things I've checked/tried, Pressing CTRL+Alt+F1 at GRUB to get TTY, all I get is that blank screen. I've Checked etc/default/grub to ensure the timeout was higher then 0. The Install CD seems to be OK but I have (as it did another install successfully) but I haven't done any throughal checking of it (there was no check this disk on the first screen of the LiveCD) The USB sticks also seem to be ok (in windows though). Using the disk utility on the live CD I did check the file system on the USB stick, the "/" partition came up clean. Anybody have any other thoughts on this install, any thing else I can check?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI've been searching the forums for a while and can find similar issues, but not the exact issue. So here it is: I recently downloaded the Fedora 11 x86_64 full install DVD iso and burned it to a DVD. It booted up fine and went to the "splash screen" (where you select options) with no problems. I first selected "upgrade or install." There was some text on the screen before the screen lost output ("no signal" displayed on my monitor.) I let it sit like this for about ten minutes hoping it would work to no avail. Next I selected "upgrade or install with default video driver" this time I got to the "check media" screen, checked with no problems, said continue, it said it was loading anaconda...then...boom, same problem
View 2 Replies View RelatedI cannot install Fedora core 10. It boots up and it gets to the Fedora 10 loading screen. After that it complains my monitor is out of Range and that's as far as I can go. I had originally thought I could get to some text install mode, but I don't make it far enough to do that.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to install Fedora 10. I'm booting from a CD, and the installation gets as far as those 3 progress bars in the very beginning. As soon as they all load, my monitor goes black and starts flashing a "DVI Input Out Of Range" warning. That's all.
I'm using a
nvidia geforce 8800 gtx
and the Planar PX3611W monitor.
I am trying to install Fedora 11, but the monitor that I am using is only 640x480. When the window comes up to start the install, I cannot see any of the buttons or tabs for selecting the items. How can I adjust the resolution so that I can see the entire image in my screen?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have an F11 on an old box 686 athlon with an old nVidia Corporation NV5 [RIVA TNT2/TNT2 Pro] (rev 15) AGP. I am trying to do a network install upgrade to F13. I cannot get it to display the install menus from the network install disk. I get the initial screen with the install, basic video, repair, etc choices, but after I select the install/upgrade option, I see the CD drive read but the LCD monitor display never appears. The ready light on the monitor just keeps blinking and the display stays dark. Is there anyway of getting an error log to see what is going on?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have tried 504 i386 and 505 i386 both downloaded on an Athlon on an Abit board 20Bb hd old Hitachi monitor both load, but do not complete the boot up they suddenly stop and the monitor goes off only the setup is ever displayed the hardware is working, i just had another system on it.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI found this thread by looking up ultramon replacement: [URL] I would like to use "swapmonitor", to make it easy to move windows from monitor to monitor in a dual desktop environment. I have no idea how to install it.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI've been trying to get my headless Ubuntu 9.10 server to back up files from my Windows XP box and onto a 1 TB Seagate FreeAgent Go USB drive (which is connected to the Ubuntu server). I've tried two different methods, both of which are behaving strangely and not quite working. I'm using SSH to access my Ubuntu server.
The /etc/fstab line for the USB drive looks like this:
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/dev/sdb1 /media/usb-backup-windows ntfs uid=34,gid=34,umask=022,dirsync,sync 0 0
I'm using NTFS because I'd like to share this drive between Windows and Linux. The drive gets mounted fine and I can read/write files after booting up. The way I'd like for this to work is to have my Ubuntu box mount the Windows drive using CIFS. So I mounted the C drive using the following command:
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smbmount //windowsxp/C$ /mnt/windowsxp/C -o directio,iocharset=utf8,noperm,nounix,ro,credentials=/home/user/.smb/passwords.conf
The mount works fine. I can browse directories under /mnt/windows/xp/C, read files, copy files to Ubuntu, etc. So now I have my USB drive mounted and the C drive on my Windows box mounted. Should be good to go, right? Unfortunately, after several minutes (this varies, sometimes it can go an hour or so) of copying files using rsync --archive /mnt/windowsxp/C/ /media/usb-backup-windows/C/ (the actual command I use has more options - not sure if that's important), the server locks up.
The SSH session dies and I can no longer ping it. The server will eventually start responding after several minutes, only to lock up again a few minutes later, and so on and so on. When it locks up, the following messages end up in /var/log/kern.log:
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CIFS VFS: Unexpected lookup error -26
CIFS VFS: No response to cmd 46 mid 59789
CIFS VFS: Send error in read = -11
CIFS VFS: server not responding
I did some Googling on these messages and came across a suggestion to set /proc/fs/cifs/OplockEnabled to 0. I gave that a shot but it didn't make a difference. I also tried plugging in a mouse and noticed that I could make the server respond immediately after a lock up by moving the mouse. I have to move the mouse though - just leaving it plugged in without movement doesn't help. I have to wait for the hang to occur and then move it. Once I do that, things progress for another few minutes.
This got me thinking that I had a lack of entropy and the mouse movement was kicking things into gear. So I tried moving /dev/random to /dev/random-chaos, and created a symlink /dev/random that just pointed to /dev/urandom. This didn't work - same exact behavior. So why in the world does moving the mouse bring the server back and cause it to start responding, if only for a few more minutes until the next hang?
I then gave up on this approach and tried connecting to an rsync daemon running on my Windows box (using Cygwin), instead of using the CIFS mount point. After getting the config file right and figuring out how to run it as a service on Windows, I started getting files copied once again. However, after what seems to be about the same length of time (several minutes to an hour or so), the rsync connection dies and I get the following message in the Windows rsync log file:
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2010/03/22 13:01:01 [4024] rsync: writefd_unbuffered failed to write 4 bytes to socket [sender]: Connection reset by peer (104)
2010/03/22 13:01:01 [4024] rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(1539) [sender=3.0.7]
The Windows box is running rsync 3.0.7 and Ubuntu is running 3.0.6, but they are both protocol 30. The rsync error log on Ubuntu doesn't help much - it also says "Connection reset by peer". I've tried this at least a dozen times and it always fails with these messages. It's weird because it's always 4 bytes, never anything different. I also noticed that /var/log/kern.log had the following messages, although they do not line up with the times that rsync died:
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usb 1-5: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
I did some Googling on this message and tried some stuff that worked for other people. I added dirsync and sync to /etc/fstab. I tried setting /sys/block/sdb/device/max_sectors to 64. Neither one of those made a difference. unloading the ehci_hcd module and dropping back to USB 1.0. However, 9.10 doesn't seem to have that module loaded, so I'm not exactly sure how to turn off USB 2.0 and just try 1.0. I'm not real enthused with that workaround anyway because I have at least 500 GB to copy.
I've kind of run out of ideas here. It's frustrating because the entire reason I bought the hardware and set up Ubuntu was to run backups. I'm not sure if my problem is a networking issue (CIFS VFS server not responding, connection reset by peer), a problem with running headless (wiggling the mouse temporarily prevents the hang), a USB device problem (reset high speed USB device messages), or something else entirely.
I have an Dell 755, and I have installed Ubuntu 10.4 desktop on it, everything works fine. I have it auto login, and run Azureus/Vuse at startup (so it can be a headless Bit Torrent server), it works perfectly. As soon as I try to go headless (no keyboard/mouse/monitor) the machine boots fine (I can SSH / FreeNX to the machine) but none of the GUI/apps load. What I think is happening is that when it boots without a monitor attached it does not load any of the X11 stuff. I need it to. It worked in Ubuntu 9.04 just fine, but now with 10.4 it is a no-go. Does anyone know how to force the X11/GUI to load when there are no monitors/hardware attached? This is the one thing standing in my was of getting Windows out of my house.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have now had an Ubuntu desktop server on a very crappy server (network filesystem with enourmus latency) for a year and as the subscription will soon run out I opted for a slightly better one, still crappy but at least a "complete server" (cpu+mem+HD).And a headless installation of Ubuntu Server 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" instead of my Desktop version.I'm not using it for web pages or other 'ordinary' things though, I'm running my homemade MMORPG off of it and this new headless situation is a bit unclear to me.
I created an account and password with my root account, a folder with the username was created in /home/ and I uploaded my mmorpg executable there with an ftp client.I tried to change the whole folder (being root) to 777 but it didn't work either.
I have an HP MSS 487 (headless). I was going to update to WHS2011 but was thinking of trying Ubuntu Server first. My MSS has a USB slot, but I'm not sure how to start and run Ubuntu Server from that USB stick. I can use remote desktop to access the box. I'll also need to install something on my other pcs/macs so that I can get the backups working. I didn't see anything that is similar to the whs connector software (client). Would I need to install a full Ubuntu client to do the backups?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have the latest download of Ubuntu Server 10.04 installed. I have not installed a gui for it. I would like to be able to do this from command line if possible. I will be running this server headless but I would like to be able to login remotely if necessary. My hunch is I will need a gui to be able to log in remotely?
I have three Internal drives in my server. 80GB, ext4 formatted, this has the server os loaded on it. The other two drives are 160 and 500GB formatted ext4 as well but they are empty. I have two Ext USB drives with all my stuff I don't want to lose. Both are formatted NTFS. So I need help but keep in mind I am going to run the server headless, but would like to login remotely if necessary without a gui.
My other home computers will dual boot windows or linux, so I need to know what is the safest and best way to format the two drives in my server. ex4 or ntfs? Will I be able to run server without a gui as headless? I just installed Samba4 and starting down the learning curve by googling how to set it up.
My file sharing is simple. Nothing special within the Lan, but want to keep hackers out from the outside world. I use Logmein on my windows computers and may want to setup a remote login for the server at some point. Right now my big this is setting up the drives, shares, and going headless. I would like to be able to just turn the thing on and not worry about it.
