Cannot run gnome-session

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Published on 2010-02-18T13:28:10Z Indexed on 2010/03/28 18:03 UTC
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I'm having issues running an X Windows session on a RHEL5 64-bit server - whenever I execute the command "gnome-session &", the process goes into the background but nothing happens. I have Exceed installed on my Windows machine which is running when I try to start the gnome-session. I've tried just starting firefox by itself instead of the whole gnome session, but it doesn't work either. Any suggestions?

BTW, here's the error message I get when I try to start firefox:

firefox: Fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server localhost:10.0.

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