Bug 522055 - Remote Administration - Displays only grey screen at login
Summary: Remote Administration - Displays only grey screen at login
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 625593
Alias: None
Product: openSUSE 11.1
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Other (show other bugs)
Version: Final
Hardware: x86-64 openSUSE 11.1
: P4 - Low : Normal with 1 vote (vote)
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Assignee: Reinhard Max
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Reported: 2009-07-14 17:57 UTC by Jose Torres
Modified: 2010-09-28 12:02 UTC (History)
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Description Jose Torres 2009-07-14 17:57:39 UTC 
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.11) Gecko/2009060215 Firefox/3.0.11

When I attempt to connect via vnc (UltraVNC Viewer -WinXP) to my workstation, all I get is a grey (gray) screen and will disconnect after a few minutes. I have tried the following methods without any success.

    * rcxdm restart
    * xinetd restart
    * init3 / init 5


I have open the appropriate ports on my firewall.

The only thing that will work is to reboot the workstation but after a few days the problem will reappear.  

The "rcxdm restart" trick works under SLES 11.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Run UltraVNC on windows.
2.Connect to my workstation, running opensuse 11.1 through UltraVNC.
Actual Results:  
Grey (gray) screen will display and after a couple of minutes, will disconnect.
Reboot workstation and problem temporarily solved then after a couple of days the problem reappears.


I am connecting to a kde3 login screen that after login will take me to gnome desktop.  I am using xinetd to run the vnc server.  All configurations were done through yast.
Comment 1 Stefan Dirsch 2009-08-06 08:36:10 UTC 
Something for Reinhard I guess.
Comment 2 Reinhard Max 2009-09-07 15:10:33 UTC 
Can you reproduce this with one of the VNC viewers that come with openSUSE 11.1?
Comment 3 Jose Torres 2009-09-25 15:30:26 UTC 
I can reproduce this problem using an openSUSE 11.1 vnc client
Comment 4 Reinhard Max 2009-10-27 14:36:31 UTC 
Jose, can you please re-try it after adding a line that says "LISTEN 0.0.0.0" to
the end of /etc/X11/xdm/Xaccess and restarting the display manager?
Comment 5 Mike Lowery 2009-12-05 04:43:05 UTC 
I've been having a similar issue with 11.2. After configuring Remote Administration using YaST and attempting to connect from another box, a blank screen appears and nothing happens. I added the above line to the Xaccess file but had the same result. Likewise, if I attempt to connect via a browser to port 5801, I get "connecting to x.x.x.x" followed by "network error: could not connect to" with a "Login again" button.
Comment 6 Reinhard Max 2010-09-28 12:02:58 UTC 
This has meanwhile been fixed.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 625593 ***