[CentOS] VNCsever not starting at boot

Craig White craig at tobyhouse.com
Thu Dec 6 22:20:25 UTC 2007


On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 17:11 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 16:34 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> >   
> >> When I run system-config-services, it shows vncserver set to start at boot.
> >>
> >> in /etc/inittab I have init 3
> >>
> >> vncserver does not start at boot.
> >>
> >> I log in on the console as root and
> >>
> >> service vncserver start
> >>
> >> and it starts with some warning messages about bad display name in "add" 
> >> command, but I do not see where these are logged to copy them into this 
> >> message.
> >>
> >> Once I start it from the console, I have trouble using the vnc client to 
> >> access the server.
> >>
> >> I really need for the vncserver to start at boot, as I want it to run in 
> >> a place with no monitor or keyboard....
> >>     
> > ----
> > I don't recall there being an issue vs runlevel 3 or 5
> >
> > First off, nx is a much better way to go
> >   
> yeah, but that will take a bit of work.  At least when I look at it back 
> in the summer, it was not just a drop in as vnc has ALMOST been.
> > Anyway...what's contents of /etc/sysconfig/vncserver ? Is it configured?
> >   
> Only thing I have configured is the vncservers= line
> 
> and for ~/.vnc I have run vncpasswd to set the password and edited the 
> xstartup file to run gnome instead of X:
> 
> For Gnome, replace "twm &" with "exec gnome-session &"
> 
> also uncommented the two lines in xstartup for 'normal desktop'.  Didn't 
> notice any difference though,
----
service vncserver restart should be all that you need then

Craig




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