VNC problem

[Marcus Lively]

John Aldrich wrote:

>I made the mistake of leaving a full-screen VNC session going from my wife's 
>Windows ME box to my linux box. She couldn't figure out how to get back to 
>Windows, so she rebooted her box. Now, my system thinks that there's a :1 
>session going somewhere, but I can't seem to find the lock or the PID file.
>
>I've looked in my ~/.vnc folder, renamed the .vnc folder to .vnc-old and made 
>a new .vnc folder, and copied the relevant files over, rebooted my box (I 
>needed to anyway, to use the new kernel I installed via up2date awhile back) 
>and still, every time I try to start a new VNC session, I get it starting 
>on :2.
>
>Any ideas on how to get the new session started on :1 again? There are no vnc 
>server sessions currently running, I checked. I *did* have a stale .pid file, 
>only visible by root, but it's gone now.
>
>HELP! I'd really like to get my :1 session back, since that's the session I 
>tunnel to from my Win2k box at work. :-)
>	Thanks
>	John
>
>  
>
Have you tried to start the server using #vncserver :1 ?
You should be able to kill the other using #vncserver -kill :2

Marcus