Nothing works. In VNC, trying to start the Synaptic Manager gives an error message in the command line as follows: Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: ~$ ==== AUTHENTICATING FOR com.ubuntu.pkexec.synaptic === Authentication is required to run the Synaptic Package Manager It then asks for a password...

They work OK in Internet Explorer - But not so good in Firefox and Chrome. Browser compatibility issues.

Synaptic seems to install OK and it shows up when I access it via the VNC desktop. But when I try to use it, nothing happens and I get a message in the command line terminal window as follows: ==== AUTHENTICATING FOR com.ubuntu.pkexec.synaptic === Authentication is required to run the Synaptic Packa...

Never mind - I did not read far enough down the page to see how to stop the graphical interface startup.

Also, when I reboot the system, it now comes in graphical mode instead of the command line. Is this normal. Did not do this in 10.04, which is the release I am on at the moment.

I have three virtual Ubuntu 10.4 servers running. One is the KVM host and the other two are Guests. All machines are working properly and all the data is on the KVM host. I use one of the guests as the Mediaserver and the other as an Apache server. I have successfully exported my media directories f...

Had almost the same problem. It starts Ok from the server machine itself, but not when accessed via Tight VNC from another machine. Accepts the password and then just nothing happens.