VNC problem

[gb spam]

> I made the mistake of leaving a full-screen VNC session going from my wife's
> Windows ME box to my linux box. She couldn't figure out how to get back to
> Windows, so she rebooted her box. Now, my system thinks that there's a :1
> session going somewhere, but I can't seem to find the lock or the PID file.
> 
> Any ideas on how to get the new session started on :1 again? There are no vnc
> server sessions currently running, I checked. I *did* have a stale .pid file,
> only visible by root, but it's gone now.
> 

I just duplicated what you did, and the following resolved it for me:

rm -f /tmp/.X11-unix/X1 /tmp/.X1-lock

you should do this as either the user that ran vncserver the first
time, or root (i'd plump for root just to be sure).