I'm experimenting with using a Linode VPS as a development box for my Rails projects, so I'd like to set up a GUI environment to run a few basics, like Google Chrome for debugging.
There is a pretty good tutorial on installing VPC and Gnome here, and I've followed it closely. Everything seems to run correctly, but when I try to log in from the VNC client, I'm getting a message:
Failed to load session 'ubuntu.'
This is on a default gray screen accompanied by a logout button and black X.
I'm thinking the issue is with my .vnc/startup file, but I'm not sure where to start troubleshooting. I tried logging in from different clients on Windows and my local Ubuntu box. I also tried rebuilding the VPS from the start and got the same result.
Any suggestions?
EDIT: I checked the session log file, and here are the errors reported. I'm thinking the font errors aren't a big deal, but the security policy error seems like a problem.
Xvnc Free Edition 4.1.1 - built Sep 7 2011 11:26:15
Copyright (C) 2002-2005 RealVNC Ltd.
See http://www.realvnc.com for information on VNC.
Underlying X server release 40300000, The XFree86 Project, Inc
Sat Nov 12 04:54:40 2011
vncext: VNC extension running!
vncext: Listening for VNC connections on port 5901
vncext: created VNC server for screen 0
error opening security policy file /etc/X11/xserver/SecurityPolicy
Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/, removing from list!
Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/, removing from list!
Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/, removing from list!
Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/, removing from list!
Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/, removing from list!
Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1/, removing from list!
Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/, removing from list!
Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/, removing from list!
