Hi Norbert, I don't think it is RFB's fault either. I did give the complete steps I did. Perhaps just a wait loop after each of the steps is all it takes, 'cos since I did those steps using the local vm by hand before the "save and quit". I know how to wait for RFBServer to start (1), but I'm not sure how to wait for the load to finish or whether I need to. Anyway, I'm happy now since RFB is running fine with the manually created image. Thanks! ... and all this is pretty cool! -Kumar (1) [RFBServer current isRunning] whileFalse: [1 second asDelay wait] On 25 Oct, 2013, at 7:51 PM, pharo-users-request@lists.pharo.org wrote:

Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 16:21:49 +0200 From: Norbert Hartl <norbert@hartl.name> To: Pharo users users <pharo-users@lists.pharo.org> Subject: Re: [Pharo-users] Pharo 2.0 with RFBServer with -headless Message-ID: <CCECFED4-ED69-4802-A23D-70DECA2B81A5@hartl.name> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252

Hi Srikumar,

can you tell what other software you have installed in your image. I know the effect but I?m still not fully convinced it is RFBs fault.

Norbert

Am 25.10.2013 um 05:24 schrieb Srikumar Karaikudi Subramanian <srikumarks@gmail.com>:

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Hi,

Since this is my first post, I'd first like to say Pharo rocks! After quite a bit of search for a server-side programming environment that I can live with, I landed on Pharo/Zinc+family and went "this is it!" for my project which is like a wiki for music notation.

I'm trying to setup a pharo+zinc server with RFB installed on a VPS so I can access it through VNC ("Chicken of the VNC" on MacOS 10.8.5). I'm only get a static image of the pharo environment when I connect and I don't get any interactivity at all. One other poster [1] who mentioned this also posted that the problem was solved with a later version of squeak, which I didn't have any luck with since I don't have X configured on my server.

Much appreciate any tips.

I got pharo from get.pharo.org and cloned the image using "save". I run the following script on the cloned image with the "-headless" flag (I tried with and without the flag.)

"----begin code---" Gofer it squeaksource: 'MetacelloRepository'; package: 'ConfigurationOfRFB'; load. (Smalltalk at: #ConfigurationOfRFB) load.

(RFBServer current) allowEmptyPasswords: false; allowRemoteConnections: false; allowInteractiveConnections: true; allowZRLE: true; setFullPassword: 'my password'; start: 0.

[1 hour asDelay wait] repeat. "----end code----"

One other point - if I save an image after loading the RFB package (using "Smalltalk snapshot: true andQuit: true.") and then launch with a script that only starts the server, I get a static black screen instead and not even the static image. So I don't understand why there should be a behaviour difference between the two as well.

Regards to all, -Kumar

[1] http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/squeak/conversations/topics/141662