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- Due to timeouts associated with things like afs tokens, kerberos tickets, vpn, and ssh tunnelling, vncserver sessions left running can become inaccessible to VNC Viewers, and need will to be restarted. Troubleshooting section below has some possibilities for getting around the problem, but they are not always successful. In any case, please do not leave unsaved work in an inactive your session
- The iris group of SCCS machines are equipped with fonts necessary for running edm displays like lclshome. Other machines like noric or yakut do not have these fonts.
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- "The connection closed unexpectedly" (at VNC Viewer startup)
- You're logged into the wrong displaynum port corresponding to your vncserver.
- edm displays (e.g. lclshome) come up without text
- Not all SCCS machines have the fontset for edm. Please use the iris machines.
ReferencesÂ
SLAC Linux VNC page: http://www.slac.stanford.edu/comp/unix/vnc.html
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