From: "John Aldrich" <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > On Sunday 31 July 2005 09:15 pm, bruce wrote: > > 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... > > > yes > > what do you see when you continue to look at the various leafs/child dirs > > undeer the .vnc dir.. > > > [root@slave1 .vnc]# ls -al > total 60 > drwxrwxr-x 2 john john 4096 Jul 31 15:47 . > drwx------ 130 john 501 40960 Jul 31 21:15 .. > -rw------- 1 john john 8 Nov 14 2004 passwd > -rw-rw-r-- 1 john john 4234 Jul 31 15:47 slave1:2.log > -rwxr-xr-x 1 john 501 82 Jan 9 2003 xstartup > [root@slave1 .vnc]# > > Just did it as root to ensure that I could see everything.... Run "ps awx|grep vnc". That will give you one or more PIDs. Pick one that appears to be the lost pid and "kill -9" the process. Or you could attempt to recreate the lock and see if there is a way to attach to that session. But I have my doubts. At least you'll end up knowing its pid, which is more than you seem to know now. {^_^}