I am running 11.4_64/KDE 4.7.1 on a remote desktop and connect via vncviewer from another 11.4 system.
Was working well. I have it setup following Swerdna’s guide here
After a recent update(Yast-software Management), I was unable to access the VNC server.
When I logged into the remote via cli and ssh, looking in ~/.vnc/server.log, I could see a string of issues with akondai crashing and ultimately the vnc server shutting down.
With nothing obvious on the 'net or on the Forum, I looked for an updated package and found xorg-x11-Xvnc-7.6_1.10.4-166.10.x86_64.rpm in the repo http://X11:Org/openSUSE_11.4 searching the Suse Package site.
It is slightly newer than the version in the standard repos.
I manually downloaded the rpm, installed with Yast, and VNC now works again.
I had to remove all the ipV6 entries in /etc/hosts… (openSuse11.4 w/ KDE 4)
Removed these lines from “/etc/hosts”
special IPv6 addresses
::1 localhost ipv6-localhost ipv6-loopback
fe00::0 ipv6-localnet
ff00::0 ipv6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ipv6-allnodes
ff02::2 ipv6-allrouters
ff02::3 ipv6-allhosts
I tried upgrading to the latest version of X-vnc, but that did not work… I could not find a log file for the Desktop Sharing (VNC) in KDE, so I can’t tell what was happening. Anyone know if/where this service logs it’s data? I would think xinetd, but it’s not very verbose (just connect log)
Are you following Swerdna’s guide (post #1)?
That does not use xinet.d service setup.
The log for the vncserver should be found in /home/username/.vnc/server.log, username = user that started vncserver.
Is the vncserver process running on the host?
Look at
ps -A |grep vncserver
When I could not see it running, realized it had crashed on startup (in server.log)