From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20010917 Description of problem: The vncserver service don't restart after a crash because the lock in /tmp/.X11-unix/X* is still there. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.make vncserver start at boot time (chkconfig ...) 2.add an entry in /etc/sysconfig/vncserver 3.restart the conputer 4.verify vncserver is working using vncviewer 5.crash (turnoff) your computer 6.reboot 7.vncserver is not working anymore because the lock is still there Actual Results: vncserver is not working anymore because the lock is still there Expected Results: vncserver was working Additional info: EASY to fix, just add # Delete X locks rm -f /tmp/.X*-lock + rm -f /tmp/.X11-unix/* in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit maybe vncserver can be more agressiv against bad lock files. probably occur in 7.2 too.
Closing bugs on older, no longer supported, releases. Apologies for any lack of response. If this persists on a current release, such as Fedora Core 4, please open a new bug.