On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 4:56 PM, Larry Martell <larry.martell at gmail.com>wrote: > I had posted last week about trying to get VNC working. I was never > successful nor were multiple admins. But we realized that all the hosts we > tried on were VMs. We followed the same procedure ( > http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/VNC-Server) on a machine with physical HW > and it worked with no problem. But on the VM I can connect, but I don't get > any window displayed. Here is what is in the log: > > Sat Oct 19 18:39:55 2013 > vncext: VNC extension running! > vncext: Listening for VNC connections on all interface(s), port 5902 > vncext: created VNC server for screen 0 > GNOME_KEYRING_SOCKET=/tmp/keyring-Y6Tg3c/socket > SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/keyring-Y6Tg3c/socket.ssh > GNOME_KEYRING_PID=19728 > Failed to play sound: File or data not found > > ** (nm-applet:19775): WARNING **: <WARN> request_name(): Could not > acquire the NetworkManagerUserSettings service. > Error: (9) Connection ":1.552" is not allowed to own the service > "org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerUserSettings" due to security policies in > the configuration file > Googling that error I found this: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=63576 and I followed the advice there. Now I don't get that error, but I still get no display. Now all I get in the log is this: 19/10/2013 07:14:27 PM [IPv6] Got connection from client ::ffff:10.250.151.75 19/10/2013 07:14:27 PM other clients: 19/10/2013 07:14:27 PM Client Protocol Version 3.7 19/10/2013 07:14:27 PM Advertising security type 2 19/10/2013 07:14:28 PM Client returned security type 2 My xstartup file is identical on the VM and the physical host. Does anyone out there have VNC working on a VM? > 19/10/2013 06:39:59 PM Autoprobing TCP port in (all) network interface > 19/10/2013 06:39:59 PM Listening IPv{4,6}://*:5900 > 19/10/2013 06:39:59 PM Autoprobing selected port 5900 > 19/10/2013 06:39:59 PM Advertising authentication type: 'VNC > Authentication' (2) > 19/10/2013 06:39:59 PM Advertising security type: 'VNC Authentication' (2) > > (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:19796): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: > cannot regster existing type `_PolkitError' > > (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:19796): GLib-CRITICAL **: > g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed > Initializing nautilus-gdu extension > Initializing nautilus-open-terminal extension > > ** (gnome-panel:19761): CRITICAL **: panel_applet_frame_change_background: > assertion `PANEL_IS_WIDGET (GTK_WIDGET (frame)->parent)' failed > > (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:19796): polkit-gnome-1-WARNING **: No > icon for themed icon with name 'preferences-system-network-proxy' > Window manager warning: Buggy client sent a _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW message > with a timestamp of 0 for 0x2c00003 (Authentica) > Window manager warning: meta_window_activate called by a pager with a 0 > timestamp; the pager needs to be fixed. > Window manager warning: Buggy client sent a _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW message > with a timestamp of 0 for 0x2c00003 (Authentica) > Window manager warning: meta_window_activate called by a pager with a 0 > timestamp; the pager needs to be fixed. > 19/10/2013 06:40:48 PM [IPv6] Got connection from client > ::ffff:10.250.151.75 > 19/10/2013 06:40:48 PM other clients: > 19/10/2013 06:40:49 PM Client Protocol Version 3.7 > 19/10/2013 06:40:49 PM Advertising security type 2 > 19/10/2013 06:40:49 PM Client returned security type 2 > > > Anyone have any clues as to what could be wrong and why it works on a > physical host and not on a VM? >