HOWTO: Set up VNC server with resumable sessions - KUBUNTU VERSION

[netvampire]

Thanks. Guide Worked Great.

[philo23]

when i tried

vncviewer localhost:1

the first time, i got a X for a cursor and a black and white background and the desktop just didnt do anything else.
after i restarted and tried again, i got this error:

ReadFromRFBServer: rdr::EndOfStream

Any ideas people, i want to get this pc monitor-less as soon as possible but i cant untill i can remote desktop to it.

Thanks in advance who ever helps.

[KristoferP]

I've followed this guide and got it working on my computer using Kubuntu Fiesty. But whenever i try to launch some aplications like firefox from a vnc session i get the following error:

X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1
  Major opcode:  146
  Minor opcode:  2
  Resource id:  0x3800001
Xlib:  extension "XInputExtension" missing on display "monkeybox.local:1.0".
Failed to get list of devices
The program 'firefox-bin' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation)'.
  (Details: serial 190 error_code 1 request_code 146 minor_code 23)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
   option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)

Actually i get that error message from all GUI programs i try to launch from the console, but some of the just report the error (up until "The program 'X' received an X Window System error...) then launch.

What could be the cause?

[jd65pl]

when i tried

vncviewer localhost:1

the first time, i got a X for a cursor and a black and white background and the desktop just didnt do anything else.
after i restarted and tried again, i got this error:

ReadFromRFBServer: rdr::EndOfStream

Any ideas people, i want to get this pc monitor-less as soon as possible but i cant untill i can remote desktop to it.

Thanks in advance who ever helps.

I get the same?? Anyone have any ideas?

[geek.de.nz]

The error was 'BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation)'. (Details: serial 190 error_code 1 request_code 146 minor_code 23) ...

This issue was still there for me. After a bit of googling and looking i found out that making your /etc/xinetd.d/Xvnc file look like this helps:

service Xvnc
{
type = UNLISTED
disable = no
socket_type = stream
protocol = tcp
wait = yes
user = root
server = /usr/bin/Xvnc
server_args = -inetd :1 -query localhost -geometry 1024x768 -depth 16 -once -fp /usr/share/X11/fonts/misc -DisconnectClients=0 -NeverShared passwordFile=/root/.vncpasswd -extension XFIXES
port = 5901
}

[AlfaTrion]

worked like a charm.
thank you so much!

[ukdoc]

This works absolutely brilliantly.

However, I have noticed I get the following error whenever I log in via a VNC session:

see: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=144514

(Basically the power manager crashes - description at url above)

Anyone got any suggestions how to fix this - it only happens with VNC sessions - if I log in when I'm actually at my desktop there are no errors.

Cheers

[darksmurf]

Worked great in Kubuntu and Ubuntu 7.10, the setup is virtually the same with the only difference being how to enable Xdmcp for kdm or gdm...kdm was easier.

[happyface]

Well I followed the tutorial and I just can't get vncviewer to work. Here's the log i get:

Couldn't open RGB_DB '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb'

Xvnc Free Edition 4.1.2 - built May 12 2006 17:42:24
Copyright (C) 2002-2005 RealVNC Ltd.
See http://www.realvnc.com for information on VNC.
Underlying X server release 40201000, The XFree86 Project, Inc


Sat Oct 27 11:11:00 2007
 vncext:      VNC extension running!
 vncext:      Listening for VNC connections on port 5901
 vncext:      Listening for HTTP connections on port 5801
 vncext:      created VNC server for screen 0
Could not init font path element unix/:7100, removing from list!

Fatal server error:
could not open default font 'fixed'
XIO:  fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":1.0"
      after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
vncconfig: unable to open display ":1"
xterm Xt error: Can't open display: :1
xset:  unable to open display ":1"

I keep getting the fontpath and the rgb error even though i have adjusted the paths in /etc/vnc.config like this:

 $fontPath = "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc,";
 $fontPath .= "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled,";
 $fontPath .= "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled,";
 $fontPath .= "/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1,";
 $fontPath .= "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi,";
 $fontPath .= "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi";

 $colorPath = "/usr/lib/X11/rgb.txt";

Could someone tell me what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks in advance.

[reefland]

when i tried

vncviewer localhost:1

the first time, i got a X for a cursor and a black and white background and the desktop just didnt do anything else.
after i restarted and tried again, i got this error:

ReadFromRFBServer: rdr::EndOfStream

Any ideas people, i want to get this pc monitor-less as soon as possible but i cant untill i can remote desktop to it.

Thanks in advance who ever helps.

I got this same error on kubuntu 7.10. I fixed it by simply adding the "-extension XFIXES" as described in this thread solved the problem for me.