Hi David, Which Windows version of VNC should I use when connecting to the VNC Server running on the Linux system? I looked at one it said it did not support connecting to Linux VNC servers. Then again, I could have no clue what I am talking about.
Thanks for your patience. ____________________ Jim Hughes Consulting Systems Programmer Mainframe Technical Support Group Department of Information Technology State of New Hampshire 27 Hazen Drive Concord, NH 03301 603-271-5586 Fax 603.271.1516 Statement of Confidentiality: The contents of this message are confidential. Any unauthorized disclosure, reproduction, use or dissemination (either whole or in part) is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, please notify the sender immediately and delete the message from your system. -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Boyes Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2011 9:04 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: recieving the following from a linux install on z > On 4/11/11 3:27 PM, "Testa, Richard" <[email protected]> wrote: > > X SERVER STARTED, THEN FAILEDTraceback (most recent call last): > > File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 1015, in <module> > > doStartupX11Actions() > > File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 100, in doStartupX11Actions > > raise RuntimeError, "X server failed to start" > > RuntimeError: X server failed to start It's a dumb assumption in anaconda that the whole world has local bitmap graphics hardware. System z has no bitmap display hardware, so X fails because it's trying to start a local X server and the X server fails because there is no bitmap display hardware. That's the advantage of using VNC (VNC fakes a X server for the install X clients, and then you connect a VNC client to the VNC server). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
