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Bug 55135

Summary:	vncserver fails to start at boot
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Bruce Friedman <bruce_friedman>
Component:	vnc	Assignee:	Tim Waugh <twaugh>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	7.2
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Description Bruce Friedman 2001-10-26 01:51:49 UTC

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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0)

Description of problem:
On a clean 7.2 system running as a server, I am seeing vncserver fail to 
start at boot because it is leaving behind /tmp/.X11-unix/X1 from the 
previous execution which prevents any subsequent starts from working.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Manually delete /tmp/.X11-unix/X1; issue "/etc/rc.d/init.d vncserver 
start"
2.shut down system "shutdown -r now"
3.Check /var/log/messages at boot to see vncserver start failure.
	

Actual Results:  You will see the following entries in /var/log/messages:

Oct 25 20:12:27 dilbert vncserver: Starting VNC server: 1:root
Oct 25 20:12:27 dilbert su(pam_unix)[1112]: session opened for user root 
by (uid
=0)
Oct 25 20:12:28 dilbert su:
Oct 25 20:12:28 dilbert su: Warning: dilbert.valuepcnet.com:1 is taken 
because o
f /tmp/.X11-unix/X1
Oct 25 20:12:28 dilbert su(pam_unix)[1112]: session closed for user root
Oct 25 20:12:28 dilbert su: Remove this file if there is no X server 
dilbert.val
uepcnet.com:1
Oct 25 20:12:28 dilbert su: A VNC server is already running as :1
Oct 25 20:12:28 dilbert vncserver:
Oct 25 20:12:28 dilbert vncserver: Warning: dilbert.valuepcnet.com:1 is 
taken be
cause of /tmp/.X11-unix/X1
Oct 25 20:12:28 dilbert vncserver: Remove this file if there is no X 
server dilb
ert.valuepcnet.com:1
Oct 25 20:12:28 dilbert vncserver: A VNC server is already running as :1
Oct 25 20:12:28 dilbert vncserver: vncserver start failed
Oct 25 20:12:28 dilbert vncserver:
Oct 25 20:12:28 dilbert rc: Starting vncserver:  failed


Expected Results:  vncserver should succeed in starting

Additional info:

Comment 1 Tim Waugh 2001-10-26 10:18:44 UTC

After 'echo -n "${display} "' I will add this to the initscript:

  rm -f "/tmp/.X11-unix/${display%%:*}"

Comment 2 Tim Waugh 2001-10-26 10:19:51 UTC

Ahem, I mean 'rm -f "/tmp/.X11-unix/X${display%%:*}"'.

Comment 3 Tim Waugh 2001-10-27 22:28:43 UTC

Actually, I won't add that line.  The underlying problem is that Xvnc is 
crashing before removing that file when the service is stopped.  I am testing 
a fix.

Comment 4 Tim Waugh 2001-11-04 10:20:37 UTC

Fixed in 3.3.3r2-21.

Comment 5 Tim Waugh 2002-01-07 10:28:57 UTC

*** Bug 58046 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***