Strange problem: VNC Server won't start only on 3 and 4

[Murari, Tam (T.A.)]

Thanks, for all the replies.

6003 and 6004 are help by some processes (I don't what they are).



-----Original Message-----
From: William Hooper [mailto:whooper@freeshell.org]
Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2003 2:21 PM
To: vnc-list@realvnc.com
Subject: Re: Strange problem: VNC Server won't start only on 3 and 4


Murari, Tam (T.A.) said:
> Hello
>
> For some reason vncserver :3 and vncserver :4 will not start.  It gives an
> error "A VNC server is already running as :3".  I checked for Xvnc
> processes but there is nothing running in 3 and 4.
>
> I am running vnc on solaris 2.8.
>
> Do I have to clean up files that are left over from a previous abrupt
> shutdown etc?
>
> Thanks

There are some temp files created by VNC that might need cleaned up
(example for :3) /tmp/.X3-lock and /tmp/.X11-unix/X3.  The VNC script
usually points out this if that is the error, though.

A while back in the list someone was having a similar problem and it was
caused by another process using one of the ports needed by VNC.  Check
ports 5803, 5903, 6003 to see if any process is using them (change the 3
to 4 for the :4 display).  Does Solaris have the netstat command?  If so
look at the output of:
$ netstat -lnt

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William Hooper
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