Re: vncserver: cannot restart on same display
On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 06:36:48PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote:
> how come it is not possible to run vncserver reusing the display
> number? the following should work:
>
> vncserver :1
> vncserver -kill :1
> vncserver :1
>
> the first two work, the third one does not, her's the error mesage
> from vncserver (which is a perl wrapper):
>
Have you tried connecting to this vncserver when it's running?
> billteam:~> vncserver :2
> ELVIS: cannot bind to 6000 + 2 [Address already in use]
> A VNC server is already running as :2
> billteam:~>
>
> (I added the ELVIS message)
Not quite sure what you mean by the above line.
>
> Xvnc complains about existing lock file (even though Xvnc that was
> running on given display is gone). here's the message from Xvnc when I
> manually remove /tmp/.X1-lock:
>
> billteam:~> Xvnc :1
> _XSERVTransSocketINETCreateListener: ...SocketCreateListener() failed
> _XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: server already running
>
> Fatal server error:
> Cannot establish any listening sockets - Make sure an X server isn't
> already running
>
> lsof | greo 6001 doesn't show anything. I verified that vnc is not
> running after vncserver -kill
>
> the probem seems to exist only for :1, I can kill vnc on :2 and then
> start Xvnc :2 again (but not vncserver).
>
> I have seen this problem on two machines (so far).
>
> any ideas on what's going on?
>
Seems like you have X running.
-Andy
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