VNC crashes at login

[Blue_Lizard]

Hi all, when I try to VNC to my system it gets to the login screen for a second and then crashes. The firewall port 5901 is open and I have tried to reinstall the OS.

I have another system running SuSE and VNC works fine on it.

monster:~/Desktop # tail /var/log/messages
Oct 26 15:36:11 monster kernel: klogd 1.4.1, ---------- state change ----------
Oct 26 15:37:06 monster gdm-simple-greeter[7783]: libglade-WARNING: Unexpected element <requires-version> inside <glade-interface>.
Oct 26 15:37:08 monster gdm-simple-slave[7721]: WARNING: Child process -7741 was already dead.
Oct 26 15:37:08 monster gdm-simple-slave[7721]: WARNING: Unable to kill D-Bus daemon

[Blue_Lizard]

I have found
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=464685

which says resolved but I dont see a solution.

no help here either
VNC Broken in 11.1 KDE and GNOME - Page 4 - openSUSE Forums

[Blue_Lizard]

some more info

monster:~ # tail .xsession-errors
Window manager warning: Buggy client sent a _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW message with a timestamp of 0 for 0x3400003 (Initializi)
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 0x3400003 (User and G)
Window manager warning: meta_window_activate called by a pager with a 0 timestamp; the pager needs to be fixed.

(gnome-keyring-daemon-wrapper:9538): EggSMClient-WARNING **: Received XSMP SaveYourself message in state save-yourself-done: client or server error
Window manager warning: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on display ':0.0'.
The application 'gnome-panel' lost its connection to the display :0.0;
most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed
the application.

[malcolmlewis]

Originally Posted by Blue Lizard

some more info

> monster:~ # tail .xsession-errors
> Window manager warning: Buggy client sent a _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW message
> with a timestamp of 0 for 0x3400003 (Initializi)
> 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 0x3400003 (User and G)
> Window manager warning: meta_window_activate called by a pager with a
> 0 timestamp; the pager needs to be fixed.
>
> (gnome-keyring-daemon-wrapper:9538): EggSMClient-WARNING **: Received
> XSMP SaveYourself message in state save-yourself-done: client or
> server error
> Window manager warning: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily
> unavailable) on display ':0.0'.
> The application 'gnome-panel' lost its connection to the display :0.0;
> most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed
> the application.

Hi
As indicated the client is buggy? Never used vnc since NX has been
out, just change the ssh port and use that more secure and faster over
a network.

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[Blue_Lizard]

thanks for your assistance. I will try NX but I use RealVNC for my other systems and at the office.

[Blue_Lizard]

NX is nice (and free ), it just takes time to setup which is not an issue for just a few systems, so for home it works.

I can also look past the fact that I cannot login as root.

Encryption is a +.

But I cannot help to think that VNC should work.

[Blue_Lizard]

I decided to give 11.2 rc2 a try. It too has issues, it does not crash it just gives me a black screen.

VNC enable gui on this OS will not let you open the firewall port either. You have to do it through the firewall gui.