Hi everyone, hoping someone might be able to give me some advice please. I have been trawling help guides, forums and FAQs for days now and cannot resolve this issue.
I now have my HP N40L setup and configured with OVM. Raid setup and everything running really smoothly. Very impressed with it. I have happily been working away using SSH to connect in and use the box remotely as I work, however I have stumbled on my next step. I have never played around much with X11 forwarding over SSH till now and I can't seem to get it to work in the same way that everyone else has.
I basically have a handful of packages I have installed which have GUI frontends which I want to be able to access over SSH using X11 forwarding. I have installed Putty on the N40L and Xming on my Windows 7 PC. Both have been configured as per the guides I found online, all of which are pretty much identical and seem very simple. I can provide the exact config if needed, but I haven't deviated at all on the guides for this. I have enabled SSH on OVM.
However, try as I might I have been unable to get anything through. I have a selection of error messages but I can't work how to resolve them and trawling online has either confused me further, not changed the situation at all or left me blankly staring at some slightly over-zealous "THOU SHALT ONLY USE COMMAND LINE!" responses to some others who have had similar questions.
The message I get back everytime is "Can't open display". Running "echo $DISPLAY" returns no result whatsoever, just a blank line. Running "startx" results in an error as follows:
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Mon Jan 28 22:52:54 2013
(==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d"
(II) [KMS] Kernel modesetting enabled.
(EE) open /dev/fb0: No such file or directory
(EE) RADEON(0): No modes.
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
Fatal server error:
no screens found
I installed packages xorg and xfce4 in an attempt to try and get this to work, though I have no idea if they were additionally needed or not. From what I can tell, it seems that, as I have it currently configured, Debian is not able to detect any X server display listening on my Windows 7 end so cannot forward the data anywhere. I don't know why not though, as everything seems to match how others have it on their guides, so I am not sure what I am missing.
Having been about to post this and give up till someone could advise me, I stumbled across this post in the last few minutes: http://forums.openmediavault.o…225&p=860&hilit=xorg#p860. Following the steps this person posted for their Crashplan setup under "Set up X11 forwarding", I have actually managed to get it to work, so my SpiderOak GUI now displays through Xming on my Windows 7 PC. However, "Spideroak £" fails everytime and just hangs and I have to ctrl-C it. I only seem to be able to run one programme at a time currently.
I'm still not satisfied with the result, as it seems like a clumsy fix in editing various files at both ends, where others seems to be able to use the tools as they are. Can anyone please assist and advise me as to what I might be doing wrong and how I can go about fixing it? I would really appreciate it, so that I can understand the problem and be able to correct it in the future. Thank you for any responses.