VNC keeps disappearing

[donheff]

This is a bit weird. I have two Fedora boxes. They are down in the basement and I access them from my comfortable perch upstairs using VNC. I updated both from Fedora Core 1 to Fedora Core 2. Everything was fine until I rebooted them after a kernel update. One of the boxes came up with VNC working and the other didn't. The one that works has VNC-4.0-0.beta4.3.2. The non-vncworking box was upgraded to Core 2 later and has vnc-4.0-1.beta4.11. I got the non-working VNC box working by uninstalling the beta and replacing it with a RH 7.3 VNC rpm. Worked fine for a while, but I rebooted and it is gone again. Doesn't show up in whereis or rpm -q. The beta package is back - da,da,da,da....

Anyone recognize this kind of behavior or is it impossible and I am just confused?

[donheff]

Well, I kinda, sorta solved half my problem. Browsing around here I learned that vnc now has two packages (vnc for the viewer and vnc-server for the server). That was apparently not the case when I installed Core2 on the first box since there is no vnc-server package on it, yet vncserver works fine. I just yum installed vnc-server on the second Core2 box (with the later vnc-beta) and now vncserver works fine.

I still don't know where my earlier RH 7.3 vnc package went when I rebooted.