[ILUG] VNC make gnome-start.... RHEL5

[Conor Wynne]

I tried the following but still no joy:

http://www.skullbox.net/vncserver.php

ssh is fine, actually it was working but I removed the vnc package and
then re-installed it and the result was the twm vnc session. Gnome was
there beforehand.
GRRR.

Any more ideas?

Francis Daly wrote:
> On 17/11/2009, Conor Wynne <mariconor at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> Poxy twm starts and I need gnome to work.
>> Surely this should work as is, what have I done wrong?
>>     
>
> Use the source, Luke.
>
>   
>> #!/bin/sh
>>
>> # Uncomment the following two lines for normal desktop:
>> unset SESSION_MANAGER
>> exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc
>>     
>
> After that "exec", the rest of this script will not run.
>
> So what does /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc do?
>
> On one machine here (reading, not testing) it does
>
> . /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc-common
>
> and then either
>
> $HOME/.Xclients
>
> or
>
> /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients
>
> or 4 "failsafe" commands including /usr/bin/twm
>
> It sounds like you are falling through to the "failsafe".
>
> So check your $HOME/.Xclients, or your /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients and see
> what they try to do. Oh, and check $SSH_AGENT too, in case it is set
> to something that breaks exec.
>
> Good luck,
>
> 	f
>