[3rd time lucky? apologies if you've seen this: NTLworld seems to be even
more pants than usual and to have lost my original usenet post and repost of
this message as far as I can tell, so I'm now trying through the mailing
list]
I'm trying to connect to my Woody (3.0r1) box from vnc client on windoze,
but I only get blank (textured) screen and X mouse cursor (initially in
centre of screen, then follows windows mouse cursor around when that enters
the vnc window).
When I run vncserver it says:
New 'X' desktop is Hostname:1
...etc...
Then .xsession-errors gets [re]written with:
xrdb: Connection refused
xrdb: Can't open display 'Hostname:1'
but why?
Googling produced one suggestion that it might be lack of a "Screen" section
in /etc/X11/XF86Config. I don't actually have an XF86Config file - mine is
XF86Config-4 - though symlinking it to XF86Config doesn't fix the problem.
The file does have a Section "Screen" (with DefaultDepth 16 and "Display"
SubSections with Depths 1,4,8,15,16 and 24 each with modes 800x600 and
640x480).
Anyway I'm running X successfully on the Woody box (with Gnome) so the
XF86Config should be OK, shouldn't it? (Though when I first booted my new
installation from floppy and tried to startx I had similar problems, and I
think I had to run dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 to get it to work OK.)
I think I read somewhere else that it could be an Xauth cookie issue, but
I've lost that piece and haven't a clue how to investigate that possibility.
Help!
[fx: OP slamming into brick wall :)]
tia
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