VNC problem
Jim
hd at jcshome.net
Sun Jul 31 22:48:25 UTC 2005
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
>
>
>
try this:
cd /tmp
ls -al
You should see a hidden directory called:
.X11-unix
Go into that directory
cd .X11-unix
You will see 2 files in there, delete the one named X1
DO NOT DELETE X0!!! That one is required by X.
That should fix your problem.
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