workaround.. gnome login loop.. on to xfce

[sgtfoo]

So recently I did something (not sure what) and somehow got fedora stuck in the login screen. In order to use webVNC, there must be a VNCservers defined user logged in to the desktop.
I lost this somehow and first tried..

as root:

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yum remove gdm yum install gdm

which gave me the same issue: when booting into the desktop I at least got into the login, but after successfully entering the correct password I would be stuck in a login loop. It would just return to the login prompt.
It's worth noting that if I were to press [ctrl+shift+F2] (?) i could use the terminal to login and it would work fine. So it would seem to me that the gnome desktop somehow "forgot" how to procees past login.

I figured it's worth trying another environment in case tying back into everything else would still work.
Other forums and users seemed to have found a different environment came to their advantage.

I'm familiar with XFCE on my other laptop and it's my lightweight enviro of choice.
here's what i did..

as root...

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yum remove gdm yum update yum groupinstall xfce // it could have been just .. yum install xfce yum update reboot

The update in between were just a hunch of mine that perhaps an update would solve any obsolescence issues or missing file issues.
So then after the reboot, it booted into xfce just fine and the login was working!

I double-checked all my user passwords from the control panel and made sure amahi's functionality was working.

The only issue that remained is that I still can't initiate VNC from webvnc. I get a user error when I

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service vncservers status

and I had already modified what users are VNC-able.

At this point I'm stuck.
Any input?

[bigfoot65]

Have you checked the wiki? The section on VNC there is pretty detailed. It seems we have had more issues with this since Fedora went to tigervnc. The WebVNC app was around in Fedora 10 and worked well.

[sgtfoo]

hmm... could someone with afunctional webvnc post a sample of the vncservers config file?

I may have the syntax wrong for multiple users/servers.

[bigfoot65]

This might help http://stevejenkins.com/blog/2010/03/se ... -internet/. Google is your friend