I have once looked up some very basic way to grab some remotely running opensuse machine and see its real console pixels via vnc via vncviewer or similar. The machines are running leap 42.2 and basically I am ssh-ing into them and running as root (or via sudo) the following line:
sudo x11vnc -localhost -nolookup -nopw -display :0 -auth guess
One machine works perfectly, prints out all sort of stuff that it is grabbing the local :0 session of X or vnc and those display and screen names and all that technical stuff. But this other machine never managed to do that. It quits and comes with a mere output of four error lines:
09/03/2017 14:27:54 x11vnc version: 0.9.13 lastmod: 2011-08-10 pid: 2028 xauth: file /root/.Xauthority does not exist 09/03/2017 14:27:54 -auth guess: failed for display=':0' 09/03/2017 14:27:54 -auth guess: since we are root, retrying with FD_XDM=1 09/03/2017 14:27:54 -auth guess: failed for display=':0'
What is wrong here and how can I make it work? The other machines it runs flawlessly detecting some of those settings automatically, and I can then vnc into it via an ssh-forwarded tcp port to the 5900 tcp port of that linux machine. That .Xauthority file doesnt exist on the working machines either, just as a remark. Weird. Whats up here? Thanks for all the help. TIA. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org