> 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. > > 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. > I just duplicated what you did, and the following resolved it for me: rm -f /tmp/.X11-unix/X1 /tmp/.X1-lock you should do this as either the user that ran vncserver the first time, or root (i'd plump for root just to be sure).
