I have Xvnc up and running on a Solaris 8 machine. If I run Xsession, I
get the CDE and can bring up, for instance, dtterm. However, none of the
standard Xlib programs seem to be able to find the display (xrdb, xterm,
... ), even running from the same window where dtterm works. The problem
is not one of Xauth, because the only error is "can't open display". If I
try to connect to display :0 for instance, I get an Xlib warning about lack
of authority.
I ran truss on xterm and found that it is looking for the file in
/tmp/.X11-pipe and giving up when that is not found. Xvnc is not creating
the pipe in that directory. The directory is set 777 (I know, security
hole, I'll talk to the admins about it), but Xvnc isn't even trying to
create the file. Again, I ran truss and see that Xvnc is checking for the
existence of /tmp/.X11-pipe/X2, but never tries to create it.
We seem to be running the latest release of Xvnc. The Xvnc command line in
use is:
Xvnc :2 -desktop 'X' -httpd classes
-auth /usr/aavpn/vnc/.Xauthority
-geometry 952x650 -depth 8
-rfbwait 120000 -rfbauth /usr/aavpn/vnc/.vnc/passwd -rfbport 5902
-alwaysshared >> '/usr/aavpn/vnc/.vnc/freya:2.log' 2>&1
I tried the -pn option, but that had no effect.
The server is up and running. I can connect a viewer to it and see the CDE
environment. I can start a console and run dtterm from the console, but I
cannot run xterm from the same console.
Does anyone know why dtterm is able to connect, but xterm is not?
Thanks.
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Gary Levin
445 South St MCC 1A210R
Morristown, NJ 07960
973 829 3416
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