Re: X on a virtual server
On 6/26/11, Gregory Seidman <gsslist+debian@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!
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