Running RE50 and trying to access my knoppmyth box from ubuntu 6.10 with vnc viewer. When it load I only see a grey screen.

This used to work fine with nx client. <minor grumble>

Here is output from terminal

alexvd@alexvd-tabletpc:~$ vncviewer 192.168.11.50
VNC viewer version 3.3.7 - built Jul 4 2006 10:04:48
Copyright (C) 2002-2003 RealVNC Ltd.
Copyright (C) 1994-2000 AT&T Laboratories Cambridge.
See http://www.realvnc.com for information on VNC.
VNC server supports protocol version 3.8 (viewer 3.3)
Password:
VNC authentication succeeded
Desktop name "mythtvmasterbackend:0"
Connected to VNC server, using protocol version 3.3
VNC server default format:
32 bits per pixel.
Least significant byte first in each pixel.
True colour: max red 255 green 255 blue 255, shift red 16 green 8 blue 0
Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" to type FontStruct
Using default colormap and visual, TrueColor, depth 24.
Got 256 exact BGR233 colours out of 256
Using BGR233 pixel format:
8 bits per pixel.
True colour: max red 7 green 7 blue 3, shift red 0 green 3 blue 6
Using shared memory PutImage

Hi just to be clear on this. It opens another window. I can see a mouse cursor, however the background is pixelated grey boxes and if I right click I don't get any menus.

I did not do anything on the backend to enable vnc server. I thought that it was installed and ready to go at startup. All you need is the viewer.

should i try another vnc app like tightvnc or something. I am just going to the terminal right now running at the command line.

Hi just to be clear on this. It opens another window. I can see a mouse cursor, however the background is pixelated grey boxes and if I right click I don't get any menus.

I did not do anything on the backend to enable vnc server. I thought that it was installed and ready to go at startup. All you need is the viewer.

should i try another vnc app like tightvnc or something. I am just going to the terminal right now running at the command line.

Don't know (in R5D1 I had to install vncserver, IIRC), but it's easy enough to check. On the backend run and see what shows up.

Sorry for the double post. I was pretty sure it was running as you can see in the above post that it authenticates.

I ran the command anyway. Thanks

root@mythtvmasterbackend:~# ps -ef | grep -i vnc
mythtv 2915 1 0 Jan01 ? 00:00:02 /usr/bin/x11vnc -nap -wait 50 -display :0 -forever -o /var/log/x11vnc.log -bg
root 4530 4520 0 13:54 ttyp0 00:00:00 grep -i vnc

Sorry for the double post. I was pretty sure it was running as you can see in the above post that it authenticates.

I ran the command anyway. Thanks

root@mythtvmasterbackend:~# ps -ef | grep -i vnc
mythtv 2915 1 0 Jan01 ? 00:00:02 /usr/bin/x11vnc -nap -wait 50 -display :0 -forever -o /var/log/x11vnc.log -bg
root 4530 4520 0 13:54 ttyp0 00:00:00 grep -i vnc

Sorry for the double post. I was pretty sure it was running as you can see in the above post that it authenticates.

I ran the command anyway. Thanks

root@mythtvmasterbackend:~# ps -ef | grep -i vnc
mythtv 2915 1 0 Jan01 ? 00:00:02 /usr/bin/x11vnc -nap -wait 50 -display :0 -forever -o /var/log/x11vnc.log -bg
root 4530 4520 0 13:54 ttyp0 00:00:00 grep -i vnc

Sorry for the double post. I was pretty sure it was running as you can see in the above post that it authenticates.

I ran the command anyway. Thanks

root@mythtvmasterbackend:~# ps -ef | grep -i vnc
mythtv 2915 1 0 Jan01 ? 00:00:02 /usr/bin/x11vnc -nap -wait 50 -display :0 -forever -o /var/log/x11vnc.log -bg
root 4530 4520 0 13:54 ttyp0 00:00:00 grep -i vnc

sorry i keep posting because the Forums are giving me errors. I didnt think it was going through. Cecil feel free to delete these

As I understand it, x11vnc exports an already existing X display. You say this is your backend, do you have mythfrontend running on it (and on display :0)?

well primarily what i want to do is run mythtv-setup so I would be exiting the frontend.

I will verify.

Hi this was solved. I was at a root prompt trying to vnc in and that was the cause.

Thanks for pointing that out.