Window Manager Problem with VNC

[amacinho]

Hello,

I recently decided to try tight vnc server and installed 1.3.9 on a remote machine. The gnome desktop manager does not start. I was successfull to start twm though.

For reference, below are the various ~/.vnc/xstartup configurations I tried:

The following one starts twm without a problem:

#!/bin/sh
# Uncomment the following two lines for normal desktop:
# unset SESSION_MANAGER
# exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc
[ -x /etc/vnc/xstartup ] && exec /etc/vnc/xstartup
[ -r $HOME/.Xresources ] && xrdb $HOME/.Xresources
xsetroot -solid grey
vncconfig -iconic &
xterm -geometry 80x60+1+1 -ls -title "$VNCDESKTOP Desktop" &
twm &

When I remove the two lines at the top I only get a grey screen with a cross shaped pointer. This is as follows:

#!/bin/sh
# Uncomment the following two lines for normal desktop:
unset SESSION_MANAGER
exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc
[ -x /etc/vnc/xstartup ] && exec /etc/vnc/xstartup
[ -r $HOME/.Xresources ] && xrdb $HOME/.Xresources
xsetroot -solid grey
vncconfig -iconic &
xterm -geometry 80x60+1+1 -ls -title "$VNCDESKTOP Desktop" &
twm &

I alsı tried to put gnome-session & at the end instead of twm, it does not work either (i.e. the same grey screen)

#!/bin/sh
# Uncomment the following two lines for normal desktop:
unset SESSION_MANAGER
exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc
[ -x /etc/vnc/xstartup ] && exec /etc/vnc/xstartup
[ -r $HOME/.Xresources ] && xrdb $HOME/.Xresources
xsetroot -solid grey
vncconfig -iconic &
xterm -geometry 80x60+1+1 -ls -title "$VNCDESKTOP Desktop" &
gnome-session &

Note that I did configure & make of the Xvnc and tightvncserver as a normal user because I don't have root rigts. I'm sure that Xvnc and tightvnc that I installed are in the path.

The interesting part is that before installing tightvnc server, I was using the realvnc that is already installed in the server and I didn't have any problems like that.

I would appreciate any help on this matter.

Thanks in advance

Amac

[amacinho]

Well, I tried to revert back to the old vncserver (by removing ~/local/bin from PATH where the new tighvncserver was installed). I see gnome is not loaded also in this case. It seems like the problem is not with vnc but I broke something with gnome. The log of the vnc is as follows:

Xvnc Free Edition 4.1.2
Copyright (C) 2002-2005 RealVNC Ltd.
See http://www.realvnc.com for information on VNC.
Underlying X server release 70101000, The X.Org Foundation


Tue Jun  3 17:47:04 2008
 vncext:      VNC extension running!
 vncext:      Listening for VNC connections on port 7302
 vncext:      Listening for HTTP connections on port 7202
 vncext:      created VNC server for screen 0
Could not init font path element /usr/share/X11/fonts/OTF, removing from list!
Could not init font path element /usr/share/X11/fonts/CID/, removing from list!
localuser:amac.herdagdelen being added to access control list
No profile for user 'amac.herdagdelen' found
SESSION_MANAGER=local/remoteserver:/tmp/.ICE-unix/31504

Any ideas?

[amacinho]

Additional info:

Although with the gnome configuration I get the grey screen with cross pointer, when I run "top -b | grep gnome" in the command shell, I get the following output:

32420 myuser  18   0 22316 6160 5244 S    0  0.2   0:00.03 gnome-session                                                                            
32456 myuser  15   0  2536  580  476 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 gnome-keyring-d                                                                          
32458 myuser  18   0 33380 6656 5504 S    0  0.2   0:00.03 gnome-settings-                                                                          
32476 myuser  18   0 15912 2024 1256 S    0  0.1   0:00.00 gnome-screensav

Gnome starts but somehow it is not bound to my display...

[amacinho]

I kind of saved the day but still I really don't the nature of the problem.

There was a process named "Bonobo activation", I killed it. I deleted .Xauthority file, killed all gnome process. Then started anew. Now it works.

Could anybody tell us what was going on here?

Amac