VNC???

[mtfriend]

I just installed Mandrake 8.0 about a week ago and everything was running great until last night. I went to boot up the machine and it was hanging during the boot up. According the GUI boot up it sits at Starting XFont Server and never goes anywhere from there. I rebooted into failsafe and noticed that httpd does not load and it looks as if the XFont server is loading, but it hangs while starting VNC server. This happens right after teh XFont server loads. From what I have read httpd and VNC server look to be related, but I am not sure what would have caused these to load in the first place. I never noticed them loading before. The only major change I made to the machine last week was install and configuring SSH. This installed flawlessly and I have been able to successfully connect to the machine remotely. I even rebooted a couple of times since the install. The only thing I can guess is that in all of my toolling around and trying to learn this stuff I broke it. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I can get the machine up and running again so that I can disable this if there is a way to disable this? Any suggestions?

Frustrated,
mtfriend :confused:

[jmcross]

I have run into this exact problem before. The problem is with VNC. It is looking for a config file that is created the first time you run it. If the file is not there it locks up on you. I have no idea why this suddenly started happening, but I think I know how to fix it. Put your boot CD in and reboot the computer. When asked what type of install do an upgrade go through all the steps of an upgrade. Do not worry about losing any of your settings as long as you do an UPGRADE. I have done this many times without any problems. At the end of the upgrade process it will ask you which servers to run at startup. Make sure that VNC is not running from startup.

Something interseting to note. With Mandrake 8.1 the VNC server is not started by default. You could also upgrade to 8.1 and that should fix it as well.

[ph34r]

Or ditch VNC (its slow, and insecure) and just forward X to a different X server, either on a Linux box or a Win32 machine. http://www.afn.org/~afn57538/xforward.htm ought to get you going with seeing your Linux stuff on a win32 machine.