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X11VNC not working in 4.9.23
Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2017 3:39 pm
by gielie
HI,
I can't get x11vnc working in 4.9.23, it was working fine in 4.8.25 but after the update it stops working after i start x11vnc.
I tried to reinstall it but with no luck.
Does someone has an idea how i can get x11vnc working again?
btw this is what my console gives.
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The SSL VNC desktop is: eneco-001-003065:0
PORT=5900
SSLPORT=5900
eneco-001-003065:~# x11vnc
The SSL VNC desktop is: eneco-001-003065:1
PORT=5901
SSLPORT=5901
eneco-001-003065:~#
So after each start it picks another port number.
Re: X11VNC not working in 4.9.23
Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2017 3:59 pm
by lxz
What do you mean by 'stops working'? Is it unreachable by your vnc client?
Usually vnc opens an other port when you start the process a second time
Can you check if it is already running (with 'top' or 'ps')?
And is port 5900 opened in your iptables.conf?
Re: X11VNC not working in 4.9.23
Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2017 12:10 am
by michel30
I think that the update did also update x11vnc and that does not work.
I had the same problem before.
What you can do, is uninstall the package and install the package from this site and that works for me.
Regards,
Michel
Re: X11VNC not working in 4.9.23
Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2017 9:28 am
by yjb
If you want to check if vnc is running:
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Toon:~# netstat -pant |grep LIST
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:10080 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 709/lighttpd
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:5900 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 27991/x11vnc-bin
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:80 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 709/lighttpd
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:22 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 623/dropbear
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:1337 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 671/HCBv2 hcb_comm
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:6010 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 27789/dropbear
If it is indeed running, it shows the port. If the port is not accessible I would expect that something is wrong with the firewall rules.
Re: X11VNC not working in 4.9.23
Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2017 9:43 am
by gielie
Ok I see now VNC is already running, twice on different port numbers but yet unreachable, I’ll have to check the firewall.
One thing I don’t understand, before on fw8.4.25 when I started vnc it was running in the console and I could stop it with ctrl c, how to I stop vnc now from running?
I started from scratch and this is what happend.
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eneco-001-003065:~# opkg install x11vnc_0.9.13-r0_qb2.ipk
Installing x11vnc (0.9.13-r0) to root...
Configuring x11vnc.
eneco-001-003065:~# x11vnc
Enter VNC password:
Verify password:
Write password to /root/.vnc/passwd? [y]/n y
Password written to: /root/.vnc/passwd
WARNING: can't open config file: /usr/lib/ssl/openssl.cnf
[s] i still can't log in.[/s]
Ok ik used open vnc and that didn't work, i went to tiger vnc and that solved the problem.
1 thing remains, before i could stop x11vnc with ctrl c, how do i stop the server now?
Re: X11VNC not working in 4.9.23
Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2017 9:24 pm
by michel30
Hello,
My toon works with x11vnc.
I used the x11vnc package from this forum.
I edit this file /etc/inittab and add in this line
Re: X11VNC not working in 4.9.23
Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2017 12:36 pm
by HenkP
Toon works with x11vnc, but after a power off-on x11vnc is not self restarting.
Where or what can I edit for a auto restart off X11vnc?
Thanks
Re: X11VNC not working in 4.9.23
Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2017 12:59 pm
by marcelr
Re: X11VNC not working in 4.9.23
Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2017 9:54 pm
by HenkP
Thanks, but that don`t workt for me.
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Re: X11VNC not working in 4.9.23
Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2017 11:29 pm
by marcelr
You can always write a small shell script to startup x11vnc, and pop that into /etc/init.d
Then x11vnc will start at least at boot-up.
Re: X11VNC not working in 4.9.23
Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2017 4:40 pm
by gerlag
Small addition:
For those where automatic restart of x11VNC server after reboot is not working, using the init.d or inittab approach, (see
here), the alternative crontab solution could work as a last resort. Which was the case in my situation.
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eneco:~# crontab -e
# crontab for root
# The time and date fields are:
#
# field allowed values
# ----- --------------
# minute 0-59
# hour 0-23
# day of month 1-31
# month 1-12 (or names, see below)
# day of week 0-7 (0 or 7 is Sunday, or use names)
#
SHELL=/bin/sh
*/5 * * * * /root/bin/buienradar_get_data_5min.sh
2 */1 * * * /root/bin/buienradar_get_data_hourly.sh
@reboot /usr/bin/x11vnc
(I added the line)
Then type:
Then reboot
and check if x11VNC has automatically started.
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netstat -pant |grep LIST
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:10080 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 707/lighttpd
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:5900 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 1012/x11vnc-bin
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:80 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 707/lighttpd
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:22 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 624/dropbear
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:1337 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 680/HCBv2 hcb_comm