john... when you're logged in as the user 'root' and as the user who created the vncservice... what do you get when you're in the 'home' dir and you do a ls -al .. do you see a '.vnc' folder... what do you see when you continue to look at the various leafs/child dirs undeer the .vnc dir.. -bruce -----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of John Aldrich Sent: Sunday, July 31, 2005 5:51 PM To: For users of Fedora Core releases Subject: Re: VNC problem On Sunday 31 July 2005 08:41 pm, Marcus Lively wrote: > > > > What happens if you try #vncserver -kill :1 and then restart it. > [john@slave1 tmp]$ vncserver -kill :1 Can't find file /home/john/.vnc/slave1:1.pid You'll have to kill the Xvnc process manually > Jim may have been on the right lines, just started vncserver myself and > found a hidden .X1-lock under /tmp perhaps this is the one. Nope. Not here... I just checked... no .X1-lock under /tmp, and no .X1-lock anywhere else on the filesystem according to locate and find. 'Preciate everyone's suggestions, but so far none of them have worked... -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list