Can't start 1st video screen

[Harmen van der Wal]

"K.A. Steensma" wrote:
> 
> Yes, you're right.  I needed to say that if I type 'vncserver', the system
> starts the next available screen (or 3rd).  On this machine, it starts
> process 2 (not 1).  But if I look in '/root/.vnc' subdirectory, I don't see
> any pid's.  Even if I search for all pid's on the machine, there are none
> that apply to VNC.  Nor is there an 'Xvnc' process running.
> So here's what happened (just now).
> 
> 1) vncserver is running as :2
> 2) type vncserver -kill :2
> 3) the system reports that process ID 13273 was terminated
> 4) type vncserver -kill :1
> 5) the system reports with the below noted error
> 6) type vncserver
> 7) the system reports that it started :3
> 8) check for all entries in '/root/.vnc/', I find that there are -
>     passwd
>     xxxxx.yyyyy.zzz:2.log
>     xxxxx.yyyyy.zzz:3.log
>     xstartup
> 
> da . . . . What am I missing?


Maybe you have a lock file in your temp dir? "/tmp/.X1-lock" on my
system.
If so, remove by hand.

But don't you get a message about the lock file when you attempt to
start the server? I do.

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Harmen
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