Connecting to VNC hangs my system

Shane Presley shane.presley at gmail.com
Thu May 12 14:29:03 UTC 2005


Hello all,

Using Red Hat ES v3, with all up2date packages. 

I setup VNC to use my root X desktop....using these changes...

in  /etc/sysconfig/vncservers	
VNCSERVERS="1:root"

in  /etc/X11/XF86Config 
To section Section "Module" add
        Load "vnc"
To section Section "Screen"add
	Option "passwordFile" "/root/.vnc/passwd"

This worked on other RHEL v3 systems.  But on this one in particular,
when I connect to hostname:0, I get prompted for my password, but then
when I enter it, I get the VNC window with a blank screen, and it
crashes my system.  My RedHat box totally freezes, and I have to pull
the power.  No local console..nothing.

I have tried connecting from an XP box, another RedHat box, and even
locally using vncviewer localhost:0.  All results are the same.

Any ideas,
Thanks,
Shane




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