On 6/26/11, Gregory Seidman <gsslist+deb...@anthropohedron.net> wrote:
>> I am going to try x11vnc. Thank you all! > Not a bad choice, but not necessarily the best either. It depends on your > purpose. My purpose, at this early stage, is simplicity itself: I have a "virtual private server" up and running -- root access and all that -- and I want to have some sort of X desktop available on it that I can remotely log in to. What do you suggest? At present I feel I am close to getting the login to work, but of course there is nothing resembling an X session there (i.le window manager, Gnome or KDE). At this point I can get an x11vnc server instance running on the server end, but when my login attempt comes in the server quits with: 26/06/2011 20:43:46 Got connection from client 68.222.333.197 26/06/2011 20:43:46 other clients: 26/06/2011 20:43:46 wait_for_client: got client 26/06/2011 20:43:46 wait_for_client: running: env X11VNC_SKIP_DISPLAY='' /bin/sh /tmp/x11vnc-find_display.KvIaiO xauth: creating new authority file /home/bob/.Xauthority 26/06/2011 20:43:46 wait_for_client: find display cmd failed 26/06/2011 20:43:46 wait_for_client: FINDCREATEDISPLAY cmd: /bin/sh /tmp/x11vnc-find_display.KvIaiO Xvnc trying N=20 ... 26/06/2011 20:43:46 wait_for_client: read failed: /bin/sh /tmp/x11vnc-find_display.KvIaiO Xvnc 26/06/2011 20:43:46 fgets: Bad file descriptor bob@somehost$ x11vnc -rfbauth ~/.vnc -xvfb 26/06/2011 20:53:22 passing arg to libvncserver: -rfbauth 26/06/2011 20:53:22 passing arg to libvncserver: /home/bob/.vnc 26/06/2011 20:53:22 passing arg to libvncserver: -xvfb 26/06/2011 20:53:22 x11vnc version: 0.9.3 lastmod: 2007-09-30 26/06/2011 20:53:22 26/06/2011 20:53:22 *** XOpenDisplay failed. No -display or DISPLAY. 26/06/2011 20:53:22 *** Trying ":0" in 4 seconds. Press Ctrl-C to abort. 26/06/2011 20:53:22 *** 1 2 3 4 26/06/2011 20:53:26 26/06/2011 20:53:26 *************************************** 26/06/2011 20:53:26 *** XOpenDisplay failed (:0) *** x11vnc was unable to open the X DISPLAY: ":0", it cannot continue. *** There may be "Xlib:" error messages above with details about the failure. Any light you can shed on my confusion will be welcome! -- No no no, my fish's name is Eric, Eric the fish. He's an halibut. I am not a looney! Why should I be tarred with the epithet looney merely because I have a pet halibut? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/banlktikarpwd22+dpxc6gzcojjyg_rh...@mail.gmail.com
