RHEL4 vnc-server package dependency problems

[Frappy John]

On 8/14/05, Stuart Sears <stuart at sjsears.com> wrote:
. . .
> this may seem like a silly question, but do you have a fully-fledged
> graphical environment running on this box already?
> running all the above queries on my box it looks like you are missing a
> number of essential packages, not least of which are
> fonts-xorg-base
> xfs
> xorg-x11
> xorg-x11-libs
> 
> basically it suggests that you don't have X installed.

Stuart--

Not a silly question at all: The server has been sitting in a server
farm without a monitor, hence no X installed.

I'm doing development on it and would like to use the kate text editor
via vncserver.

I realized I'd need to install some X components, but thought the Red
Hat rpm system would be aware of that and install the necessary
dependencies.

Thanks for your reply. I'll try installing the packages you mention
and repost with the results.

Thanks again,

John Hicks



On 8/14/05, Stuart Sears <stuart at sjsears.com> wrote:
> Frappy John enlightened us with the following gems on 08/14/2005 06:48 PM:
> > Hi. I'm running RHES 4.1 and I've installed the vnc-server
> > (vnc-server-4.0-8.1) via up2date but seem to be getting dependency
> > problems.
> >
> > The problem in a nutshell:
> >
> > On running vncserver, I get:
> > error opening security policy file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xserver/SecurityPolicy
> > and then three "command not found" errors
> >
> > I would like to know:
> > --which package creates the "xserver" directory in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/?
> [stuart at mail ~]$ rpm --redhatprovides /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xserver
> xorg-x11-6.8.2-1.EL.13.6
> > --which package provides "xsetroot"?
> [stuart at mail ~]$ rpm --redhatprovides /usr/X11R6/bin/xsetroot
> xorg-x11-6.8.2-1.EL.13.6
> > --why Red Hat is distributing the vnc-server with these dependency
> > problems and what we can do to correct them?
> >
> > The details:
> >
> > Upon running vncserver for the first time, I get the following in its
> > (newly created) log file:
> >
> > Xvnc version 4.0 - built Nov 24 2004 16:08:56
> > Underlying X server release 60801000, The X.Org Foundation
> >
> > Sat Aug 13 02:33:58 2005
> <snip>
> > Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/,
> > removing from list!
> do these directories exist?
> if not, they may well come with
> fonts-xorg-base-6.8.2-1
> >
> > Fatal server error:
> > could not open default font 'fixed'
> service xfs status
> or even
> rpm -q xfs
> > /root/.vnc/xstartup: line 9: xsetroot: command not found
> > /root/.vnc/xstartup: line 11: xterm: command not found
> > /root/.vnc/xstartup: line 12: twm: command not found
> > vncconfig: unable to open display "my.server.net:1"
> > ---END LOG FILE
> 
> this may seem like a silly question, but do you have a fully-fledged
> graphical environment running on this box already?
> running all the above queries on my box it looks like you are missing a
> number of essential packages, not least of which are
> fonts-xorg-base
> xfs
> xorg-x11
> xorg-x11-libs
> 
> basically it suggests that you don't have X installed.
> 
> --
> Stuart Sears RHCE RHCX
> If you don't see why, please stay the fuck away from my code.
>         Rusty, in linux-2.6.6/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking.tmpl
> 
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