My VNC will no longer start gnome, can only use twm

Question

Hi,
I have 3 or 3 Sun Servers (Solaris SPARC 10 update 8) that I administer. For one server, and as 1 users, I can't start gnome in VNC. I can start twm. Here is the error:
here is my startup script for aptest user:
#!/bin/sh
[ -r $HOME/.Xresources ] && xrdb $HOME/.Xresources
xsetroot -solid grey
vncconfig -iconic &
xterm -geometry 80x24+10+10 -ls -title "$VNCDESKTOP Desktop" &
gnome-session &
And this is the error I get:
26/04/11 11:34:23 Listening for VNC connections on TCP port 5911
No VNC extension on display :11
font missing: KSC5601.1992-3 for Window
font missing: TIS620.2533-0 for Window
font missing: ISO8859-6 for Window
font missing: ISO8859-8 for Window
font missing: SUN.UNICODE.INDIA-0 for Window
SESSION_MANAGER=inet6/orat2000b:40060,inet/orat2000b:40061
** (gnome-session:17167): WARNING **: Error getting value of /desktop/gnome/sound/en
able_esd: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you
need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a sys
tem crash. See http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ for information. (Details - 1:
IOR file '/var/tmp/gconfd-aptest/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd locate
d: Permission denied 2: IOR file '/var/tmp/gconfd-aptest/lock/ior' not opened succes
sfully, no gconfd located: Permission denied)
Interestingly, on the same box, but as a different users, I can start gnome in vnc without issues.
There are still some error messages but Gnome itself works...
the ortest users's xstart up file:
#!/bin/sh
[ -r $HOME/.Xresources ] && xrdb $HOME/.Xresources
xsetroot -solid grey
vncconfig -iconic &
xterm -geometry 80x24+10+10 -ls -title "$VNCDESKTOP Desktop" &
gnome-session &
and the log from a successfully running gnome session on the same machine:
ortest_11g $ more /test/db/ortest/.vnc/orat2000b:08.log
26/04/11 11:45:23 Xvnc version 3.3.7 - built Aug 19 2008 04:05:46
26/04/11 11:45:23 Copyright (C) 2002-2003 RealVNC Ltd.
26/04/11 11:45:23 Copyright (C) 1994-2000 AT&T Laboratories Cambridge.
26/04/11 11:45:23 All Rights Reserved.
26/04/11 11:45:23 See http://www.realvnc.com for information on VNC
26/04/11 11:45:23 Desktop name 'orat2000b:08 ()' (orat2000b:08)
26/04/11 11:45:23 Protocol version supported 3.3
26/04/11 11:45:23 Listening for VNC connections on TCP port 5908
No VNC extension on display orat2000b:08
font missing: KSC5601.1992-3 for Window
font missing: TIS620.2533-0 for Window
font missing: ISO8859-6 for Window
font missing: ISO8859-8 for Window
font missing: SUN.UNICODE.INDIA-0 for Window
SESSION_MANAGER=inet6/orat2000b:41223,inet/orat2000b:41224
Window manager warning: Log level 32: could not find XKB extension.
Window manager warning: Broken client! Window 0x400011 (orat2000b:) changed client l
eader window or SM client ID
Please help. Thanks Marv

Answer 1

Hi
Yes of course this user has a home directory.
the user is aptest, and their home directory is /test/app/aptest
The vnc log files get generated here.
/test/app/aptest/.vnc
So I just killed and restarted vnc again, getting the issue. Gnome start, it and
you see the grey screen with Oracle solaris and Metacity window Manager, then
it says "The Panel", and that it hangs on there and all the sudden the window
stays open but it reverts back into a gre desktop w/ a bare bones text terminal
where I have a command prompt.
Please help - I am at my wits end!