Installing Oracle XE on a 64bit system - Free Beer to the first person who correctly solves my problem!

[Craig White]

On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 15:03 -0700, Bryan O'Neal wrote:
> Well, no go.  
> 1) I can not seem to get a VNC session active.
> 2) I uninstalled and reinstalled and still no go.
> 3) Firefox will not launch on the remote machine today.  Konqueror will
> still launch but fierfox will not
> 
> Here are the most basic things I tried.
> 
> -----------VNC--
> Login via SSH
> Su -
> [root at my.godaddyserver.comloopadmin]# yum install vnc
> Setting up Install Process
> Setting up repositories
> turbopanel-base           100% |=========================|  951 B
> 00:00     
> update                    100% |=========================|  951 B
> 00:00     
> base                      100% |=========================| 1.1 kB
> 00:00     
> turbopanel-centos4        100% |=========================|  951 B
> 00:00     
> addons                    100% |=========================|  951 B
> 00:00     
> extras                    100% |=========================| 1.1 kB
> 00:00     
> Reading repository metadata in from local files
> Parsing package install arguments
> Resolving Dependencies
> --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
> ---> Downloading header for vnc to pack into transaction set.
> vnc-4.0-11.el4.i386.rpm   100% |=========================| 8.3 kB
> 00:00     
> ---> Package vnc.i386 0:4.0-11.el4 set to be updated
> --> Running transaction check
> 
> Dependencies Resolved
> 
> ========================================================================
> ====
>  Package                 Arch       Version          Repository
> Size 
> ========================================================================
> ====
> Installing:
>  vnc                     i386       4.0-11.el4       base
> 151 k
> 
> Transaction Summary
> ========================================================================
> ====
> Install      1 Package(s)         
> Update       0 Package(s)         
> Remove       0 Package(s)         
> Total download size: 151 k
> Is this ok [y/N]: y
> Downloading Packages:
> (1/1): vnc-4.0-11.el4.i38 100% |=========================| 151 kB
> 00:00     
> Running Transaction Test
> Finished Transaction Test
> Transaction Test Succeeded
> Running Transaction
>   Installing: vnc                          #########################
> [1/1] 
> Installed: vnc.i386 0:4.0-11.el4
> Complete!
> 
> [root at my.godaddyserver.comloopadmin]# exit
> 
> [loopadmin at my.godaddyserver.com~]$ vncserver 
> 
> You will require a password to access your desktops.
> 
> Password: 
> Verify: 
> 
> New 'my.godaddyserver.com.ip.secureserver.net:2 (loopadmin)' desktop is
> my.godaddyserver.com.ip.secureserver.net:2
> 
> Creating default startup script /home/loopadmin/.vnc/xstartup
> Starting applications specified in /home/loopadmin/.vnc/xstartup
> Log file is
> /home/loopadmin/.vnc/my.godaddyserver.com.ip.secureserver.net:2.log
> 
> [loopadmin at my.godaddyserver.com~]$ gedit .vnc/xstartup 
> looking for type: got text/plain
> [loopadmin at my.godaddyserver.com~]$ su -
> Password: 
> [root at my.godaddyserver.com~]# service vncserver stop
> Shutting down VNC server:                                  [  OK  ]
> [root at my.godaddyserver.com~]# exit
> 
> [loopadmin at my.godaddyserver.com~]$ vncserver
> 
> New 'my.godaddyserver.com.ip.secureserver.net:3 (loopadmin)' desktop is
> my.godaddyserver.com.ip.secureserver.net:3
> 
> Starting applications specified in /home/loopadmin/.vnc/xstartup
> Log file is
> /home/loopadmin/.vnc/my.godaddyserver.com.ip.secureserver.net:3.log
> 
> ------------in another window on local box-------------
> [boneal at fedora ~]$ vncviewer my.godaddyserver.com
> 
> VNC Viewer Free Edition 4.1.2 for X - built Jan  8 2007 10:03:41
> Copyright (C) 2002-2005 RealVNC Ltd.
> See http://www.realvnc.com for information on VNC.
> 
> Mon Nov 19 14:52:21 2007
>  main:        unable to connect to host: Connection refused (111)
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1 - you really should use nx instead, easier, faster, better, encrypted

    Since I know this is a CentOS system...

    yum install nx freenx

    download client software from www.nomachine.org

2 - You have to set a vnc password - as user....

    $ vncpasswd

    then as root...

    service vncserver restart

    Note: that in your startup, it says :3 and you will have to account
    for that in your connection

    You probably need to cat contents of...

    /etc/sysconfig/vncserver

    ~/.vnc/xstartup

Craig