Ubuntu Seedbox Help!

[Colypso]

still no luck

Fatal server error:
could not open default font 'fixed'

[will17]

When your logging in do you use your hostname or ip? Also edit out your hostname from before so no one can see it.

[Colypso]

ip

[Unstable1]

setting up vnc on ubuntu or debian requires a bit of fiddling im afraid.

heres roughly what you need to do:

1) make sure X is installed
2) make sure a window manager is installed like gnome for instance
3) edit the /etc/vnc.conf file to insert the line $vncStartup="/etc/gdm/Xsession"; (for gnome)
4) edit inetd.conf to start a vnc session using inet or alternatively install xinetd and then make a config file to handle vnc.
5) configure vncpassword
6) configure or write a small script to enable vnc to run through an ssh tunnel so all your vnc traffic including password is encrypted.


if you need more details, let me know.

what i've outlined will get it all working, ive configured vnc on debian and ubuntu so i know the procedure pretty well.

[naq]

Sorry for not replying sooner as I'm busy atm. I know the error you are having, it's because the vncserver package doesn't pull in all the necessary dependencies from Xorg. I had tested this part I had in Section 3 under Debian, and I am assuming it'd be the same for Ubuntu:

# apt-get install xfonts-base xfonts-75dpi xfonts-100dpi

So make sure you do this part, and if it still doesn't work, you might as well just install the whole Xorg package:

# apt-get install xorg

I won't be around until late next week. So I hope you can figure it out by then.

EDIT: make sure you restart the vncserver after installing the font packages:

$ vncserver -kill :1
$ vncserver :1

[Unstable1]

when my seedbox provider built my debian seedbox, they did a minimal install meaning there was no X system at all, or window manager.

so the first things i had to do were:

apt-get install xorg
apt-get install gdm

you need both X and a window manager - gdm is the gnome window manager.