Enabling VNC

[Jeremy Conlin]

On 2004-10-20 15:27:23 -0400, "Kevin J. Cummings" 
<cummings at kjchome.homeip.net> said:
> 
> You need to put a password in your password file.  Look at the 
> vncpasswd command in order to do this.  Make sure you do this as "root" 
> so that it writes it to the correct file.
> 
> After that, you should only need to restart the X server.  You need to 
> make sure that it shuts down entirely, then restart it.  "telinit 3" 
> should be useful if you're running at init level 5.  Then make sure 
> with "killall X" as root after you login to one of your consoles.  Then 
> "telinit 5" should restart X for you....

Well, I ended up rebooting the machine and didn't need to restart the X 
server.  I can log into the machine via ssh with X11 forwarding and 
then issue

vncviewer localhost:1

and it asks for the password and starts to export the desktop, but it 
fails.  I see the Fedora splash screen and then there is a window 
displaying an error message about some Gnome manager that isn't 
working.  The screen turns black and I can't do anything.  If I log out 
of ssh and then back in and do vncviewer...  then I just get a black 
screen after entering my password.  Is there something else I need to 
do?

Thanks again,
Jeremy