cannot kill vncserver

[Robin Hill]

On Mon Oct 27, 2008 at 01:33:20PM -0700, Daniel Senderowicz wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm new to this list, so please forgive me if this was previously
> posted.
> 
> I'm running on Fedora 8, and cannot kill previous instances of
> vncserver. Every time I start "vncserver" it will open display
> 6, while no other displays are opened. Inside ~/.vnc that are
> no files with pid's or log's with numbers less than 6. Also
> by doing
> 
> "ps aux | grep vnc" there are no related processes. I imagine
> that there must be some file somewhere locking the creation
> of these displays. I would appreciate any suggestion.
> 
There are lock files created by X at /tmp/.X?-lock and /tmp/.X11-unix/X?
where '?' is the display number.  These can get left behind if X
crashes, so they need to be cleaned up manually.

HTH,
    Robin
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