[plug] VNC / X help please

[Chris Griffin]

On 10/3/06, Michael Holland <myk at myk.id.au> wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Oct 2006, Chris Griffin wrote:
>
> > get is a dotted grey/white desktop with a quite large X cursor and
>
> That is the familiar base X desktop, with no window manager, etc.
> ie Gnome is not running.
>
> > The xstartup file looks like this:
> >
> > #!/bin/sh
> > exec /usr/bin/gnome-session
>
> 'exec' replaces the current process, so everything below it
> is ignored. There is no return from an exec, unless it fails.
>
> Did you try reading the log file?
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I have now, it looks a lot like:

Tue Oct  3 19:03:38 2006
 vncext:      VNC extension running!
 vncext:      Listening for VNC connections on port 5901
 vncext:      created VNC server for screen 0
error opening security policy file /etc/X11/xserver/SecurityPolicy
Could not init font path element /usr/share/X11/fonts/TTF/, removing from list!
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!
/home/cgriffin/.vnc/xstartup: line 5: /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc: Permission denied
/home/cgriffin/.vnc/xstartup: line 5: exec: /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc:
cannot execute: Success

Tue Oct  3 19:05:18 2006
 Connections: accepted: 192.168.0.200::1226
 SConnection: Client needs protocol version 3.4
 SConnection: Client uses unofficial protocol version 3.4
 SConnection: Assuming compatibility with version 3.3

Tue Oct  3 19:05:20 2006
 VNCSConnST:  Server default pixel format depth 16 (16bpp) little-endian rgb565
 VNCSConnST:  Client pixel format depth 16 (16bpp) little-endian rgb565

Other than the fact that is does not seem to have a few fonts that it
wants, although why I do not know it was a standard install that gave
me no such options and the desktop comes up fine at the console. It
also mentions access problems to what look like standard config files?