Late in the day Friday I figured out the problem: RH 6 was coming up runlevel 3, not runlevel 5. Once I changed to runlevel 5, it started to work.
Chuck Tribolet [email protected] http://www.almaden.ibm.com/cs/people/triblet Silicon Valley: STILL the best day job in the world. On 11/15/2010 7:03 AM, Adam Tkac wrote: > On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 12:44:39PM -0700, Chuck Tribolet wrote: >> SLES systems are setup so that when you VNC to them, they prompt for user ID >> and password. >> Red Hat systems do not. In the past, I've been able to get this to work on >> RedHat 4 and 5 >> by making a few changes. But on RHEL 6 I've been struggling. What I've >> done so far is: > > In my opinion this issue is related to gdm - > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=452528. Basically gdm is > unable to start something different than Xorg :0. > > Regards, Adam > >> Install: (Surprisingly, they are not installed by default) >> >> tigervnc-1.0.90-0.10.20100115svn3945.el6.s390x.rpm >> tigervnc-server-1.0.90-0.10.20100115svn3945.el6.s390x.rpm >> >> Create /etc/xinetd.d/vnc containing: >> >> # default: off >> # description: This serves out a VNC connection which starts at a KDM login \ >> # prompt. This VNC connection has a resolution of 1024x768, 16bit >> depth. >> service vnc1024 >> { >> disable = no >> socket_type = stream >> protocol = tcp >> wait = no >> user = nobody >> server = /usr/bin/Xvnc >> server_args = :42 -inetd -once -query localhost -geometry >> 1024x768 -depth 16 -securitytypes=none >> type = UNLISTED >> port = 5901 >> } >> # default: off >> # description: This serves out a VNC connection which starts at a KDM login \ >> # prompt. This VNC connection has a resolution of 1280x1024, 16bit >> depth. >> service vnc1280 >> { >> disable = no >> type = UNLISTED >> port = 5902 >> socket_type = stream >> protocol = tcp >> wait = no >> user = nobody >> server = /usr/bin/Xvnc >> server_args = :42 -inetd -once -query localhost -geometry >> 1280x1024 -depth 16 -securitytypes=none >> } >> # default: off >> # description: This serves out a VNC connection which starts at a KDM login \ >> # prompt. This VNC connection has a resolution of 1600x1200, 16bit >> depth. >> service vnc1600 >> { >> disable = no >> type = UNLISTED >> port = 5903 >> socket_type = stream >> protocol = tcp >> wait = no >> user = nobody >> server = /usr/bin/Xvnc >> server_args = :42 -inetd -once -query localhost -geometry >> 1600x1200 -depth 16 -securitytypes=none >> >> >> Update /etc/gdm/custom.conf to contain: >> >> # GDM configuration storage >> >> [daemon] >> RemoteGreeter=/usr/libexec/gdm-simple-greeter >> >> [security] >> >> [xdmpc] >> Enable=true >> >> [servers] >> #0=Standard >> >> [greeter] >> >> [chooser] >> >> [debug] >> >> (I've also tried it with no RemoteGreater keyword). >> >> >> Update /etc/services with these lines: >> >> vnc1024 5901/tcp # vnc and gdm 1024x768 >> vnc1280 5902/tcp # vnc and gdm 1280x1024 >> vnc1600 5903/tcp # vnc and gdm 1600x1200 >> >> And finally: >> >> chkconfig vnc off >> chkconfig vnc on >> service xinetd restart >> >> A reboot didn't help. VNC does get started. If I VNC to the machine, I get >> an all black window >> and no user ID prompt. I suspect the problem has something to do with the >> greeter parameter. >> >> This is running on IBM zSeries (mainframe) but I don't think that's relevant. >> -- >> Chuck Tribolet >> [email protected] >> http://www.almaden.ibm.com/cs/people/triblet >> >> Silicon Valley: STILL the best day job in the world. >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> The Next 800 Companies to Lead America's Growth: New Video Whitepaper >> David G. Thomson, author of the best-selling book "Blueprint to a >> Billion" shares his insights and actions to help propel your >> business during the next growth cycle. Listen Now! >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/SAP-dev2dev >> _______________________________________________ >> Tigervnc-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tigervnc-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Centralized Desktop Delivery: Dell and VMware Reference Architecture Simplifying enterprise desktop deployment and management using Dell EqualLogic storage and VMware View: A highly scalable, end-to-end client virtualization framework. Read more! http://p.sf.net/sfu/dell-eql-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Tigervnc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tigervnc-users
