I just installed VNCServer on my Ubuntu box. I've tested the connection on my Windows box and connect fine.If I were to restart Ubuntu, would the VNCServer start automatically? If not, how would I do this?
View 1 RepliesI am currently using FC10 on a Dell 4600 with 2GB of ram. I love Linux as it is the most stable OS around. My end goal is to have the machine boot and start the vncserver automatically, eventually using an ssh tunnel to make it secure. My main problem is the vncserver is not starting on boot, I must login as a user then it works great. the error I get is
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Basically what happens is the vncserver fails on boot however, if I login to the Fedora box I am able to connect and I get the GDM login screen. I have read many, many posts but have not been able to get over the boot issue. I really want to make this a headless box I can put in another room so I have more room for my musical gear.
When I start the vncserver process, I get a message saying "Starting VNC server: no displays configured." I edited the /root/.vnc/xstartup file and changed twm & to say "gnome-session &" (Without quotes). Not sure why I am still seeing this error. It's CentOS 5.4.
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View 9 Replies View Relatedeverytime i open a terminal window, all i see is:
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and i have to type bash everytime to get it running. i found a bandaid fix by having it type bash at the "custom command" profile preference... but i still consider the problem to be unsolved, because i still have to manually type 'bash' whenever i log remotely (putty). it seems like something happened, and now bash is not loaded by the terminal by default like it should.
PS: i already tried 'cp /etc/skel/.bashrc ~./bashrc', and it didn't seem to do anything.
I am using Ubuntu 9.10, fairly fresh install. Had one hard reset since I installed it, which could be when the problem started. Also, I was messing a bit with profiles, switching their ID's and adding/deleting them (not sure if that would be the problem).
My question is, how do I stop Skype from automatically starting up in Ubuntu 9.10 (Kernel 2.6.31-17-generic).
Skype is not in "System" "Startup Applications". If placed there two sessions Start.
I'm moving a homebrew arcade cabinet I have in my sitting room over from Gentoo to Ubuntu. Gentoo's served me well for a couple of years, but it refuses to recognise a touchscreen I recently installed on the cab, so I thought I'd give Ubuntu a try.
There is very little space on the SATA DOM inside the board in the cab, so I try and put as little OS on there as possible. To that end, I installed the minimal iso, and then apt-got X. I manually configured xorg.conf to make both monitors attached to the cab work, and I can enter X fine from the command line.
But what I need to do is have X start on powerup and automatically run my game. In Gentoo this is as simple as putting "xinit [GAME]" into /etc/init.d/local.start (the equivalent of rc.local). No login required, the prompt didn't even come up until I'd exited the game.
However, if I try and do this in Ubuntu, X can't find any devices, even though rc.local is at position 99. I've tried putting the lines in rc.local as well as manually update-rc.d-ing my own files, but no luck. X refuses to start until after the login.
So what seem to need is some way of automatically logging in as root on the command line, starting X, then running my game.
I am helping a local genealogy society set up their research center. They want three workstations and a single data server. The genealogy program of choice was GRAMPS, which I have used for years a Wonderful program! No data is going to be input on the workstations the users are simply researching existing data on the server.
Since several RDP-based Wyse thin client units were available for free as were monitors and keyboards, the decision was quickly made to use an RDP based client/server system. Using VNC was unacceptable due to its speed and latency issues, plus, it isn't supported by the Wyse thin client units ONLY RDP and Cytrix.
Using Microsoft's server OS and Terminal Server package was far, far beyond the society's budget. We briefly considered equipping a Windows XP box with a copy ThinSoft's RDP server package, WinConnect Server XP, but its $300 price tag was still too much for the society.
The decision was to use Linux for the server. At first we considered LTSP but it is oriented towards PXE net boots and, while this may have worked, its complexity scared us off and we opted for what, we initially thought, was a much simpler solution XRDP.
We were right and wrong at the same time. It is simple to set up very simple, but the lack of documentation places many pitfalls in front of you, PLUS the solution is distribution dependent.
I spent many hours on this issue. There are numerous sources on the web citing solutions to running XRDP. Unfortunately, they all involve running vncserver against the destination logins. This is NOT what we desired. We wanted to be able to boot up the host system but not login at all, yet still be able to connect to a session via RDP.
I tried numerous distributions and eventually spending a lot of time going through the xrdp source code and planting out my own debug messages in /etc/xrdp/startsm.sh to output to a file in /tmp. Putting in ps -eS >> /tmp/xrdp.txt was particularly useful because it showed that xrdp/sesman DID launch an Xvnc, meaning that it was unnecessary to pre-launch vncserver, as most pundits recommend. The solution was figuring out how to connect to the Xvnc session created by sesman.
I discovered the solution somewhat by accident. It seems that the files created in the destination user's .vnc folder by vncserver were interfering with xrdp/sesman. Here is what worked. 1.Starting with a nearly virgin install of Ubuntu 10.04 beta 1, installed two users intended to be accessed for remote login via RDP. That is ALL that I did I never even logged into them. 2.My first entry xrdp.ini was unmodified except that ask was deleted from username=. Everything was unmodified.
3.Using tsclient on another machine, with the desired username, that was NOT logged in, and password pre-filled, I connected and received a nice Gnome desktop. 4.The session was on 5910. 5.While keeping this session active, I logged into the next login created for remote access and received my second nice Gnome sesktop on port 5911 automatically. Xrdp-sesman DOES automatically launch Xvnc in a useful way!
I can ONLY get this to work on Ubuntu version 10.04 e/w Gnome. It fails on CentOS 5.2, Xubuntu 9.10, SuperOS 9.10 and Lubuntu 10.04. In all cases xrdp was version 4.1.1, so the issue is not with xrdp/sesman it lies within the OS what, I do not know. I did not test KDE at all.
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The system is running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS beta - the Lucid Lynx, amd64:
uname -a
Linux ubu910 2.6.32-16-generic #25-Ubuntu SMP Tue Mar 9 16:33:12 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux
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Contents of /etc/xrdp/sesman.ini:
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[Globals]
ListenAddress=127.0.0.1
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Starting VNC server: 1: aquiles/usr/bin/env: perl: No such file or directory
[FAILED]
The file /etc/sysconfig/vncservers
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[root@sinahome ~] # iptables - list
Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
ACCEPT tcp - anywhere anywhere tcp dpt: ftp
ACCEPT tcp - anywhere anywhere tcp dpt: vnc-server
ACCEPT tcp - anywhere anywhere tcp dpt: https
ACCEPT tcp - anywhere anywhere tcp dpt: http
ACCEPT tcp - anywhere anywhere tcp dpt: ssh
ACCEPT all - anywhere anywhere state RELATED, Estaba LISHED
ACCEPT icmp - anywhere anywhere
ACCEPT all - anywhere anywhere
ACCEPT tcp - anywhere anywhere state NEW tcp dpt: s sh
REJECT all - anywhere anywhere reject-with icmp-ho st-Prohibited
ACCEPT all - anywhere anywhere state RELATED, Estaba LISHED
ACCEPT tcp - anywhere anywhere tcp PTPs: commplex-m ain: targus-getdata
ACCEPT tcp - anywhere anywhere state NEW tcp PTPs: 5901:5902
Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
REJECT all - anywhere anywhere reject-with icmp-ho st-Prohibited
Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination