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07-16-2013

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vnc viewer presents black screen along with GNOME settings daemon errors.

Hello folks,

I'm remotely connecting through VNC to two machines, each running Red Hat 5.9, from mine which is running Windows 7. Both connections were working well before. However, now one of the machines only gives me a black screen, with a pop up that says:

"There was an error starting GNOME Settings Daemon. Some things, such as themes, sounds, or background settings may not work correctly. The last error message was: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken."

I've searched all over the net for a solution to no avail. One thing I tried was deleting the following files in hopes of resetting my gnome environment but this did not help either.

Files: /tmp/orbit-<user>, .gconf, .gconfd, .gnome, .gnome2 and .metacity.

I have attached the two vncviewer log files, one from the connection that still works well and the other from the one that gives me the above errors, named bad and good respectively.

I'm new to the forum so I apologize if this is not the most adequate forum section for my problem or if I omitted any relevant files or debug information. I would greatly appreciate any help you can send my way.

Miguel.

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bad.txt (6.8 KB)

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remote-viewer

REMOTE-VIEWER(1)					User Contributed Perl Documentation					  REMOTE-VIEWER(1)

NAME

       remote-viewer - a simple remote desktop client

SYNOPSIS

       remote-viewer [OPTIONS] URI

DESCRIPTION

       remote-viewer is a simple remote display client. The supported protocols are SPICE and VNC.

OPTIONS

       The following options are accepted when running "remote-viewer":

       -h, --help
	   Display command line help summary

       -V, --version
	   Display program version number

       -v, --verbose
	   Display information about the connection

       -z PCT, --zoom=PCT
	   Zoom level of the display window in percentage. Range 10-200.

       -f, --full-screen
	   Start with the window maximised to fullscreen

       --spice-controller
	   Use the SPICE controller to initialize the connection with the SPICE server. This option is used by the SPICE browser addons to allow
	   web page to start a client.

       --debug
	   Print debugging information

EXAMPLES

       To connect to SPICE server on host "makai" with port 5900

	  remote-viewer spice://makai:5900

       To connect to VNC server on host "tsingy" with port 5900

	  remote-viewer vnc://tsingy:5900

BUGS

       Report bugs to the mailing list "http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/virt-tools-list"

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2012 Red Hat, Inc., and various contributors.  This is free software. You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of
       the GNU General Public License "http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html". There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

SEE ALSO

       "virt-viewer(1)", the project website "http://virt-manager.org"

perl v5.14.2							    2012-05-28							  REMOTE-VIEWER(1)