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

[Craig White]

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Craig

On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 15:16 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> 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)
> ----
> 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
> 
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