Author: Egbert Eich Subject: Clean pid files of dead processes. Patch-Mainline: To be upstreamed References: bnc#948392 Signed-off-by: Michal Srb --- a/unix/vncserver 2015-05-19 18:01:12.000000000 +0200 +++ b/unix/vncserver 2015-10-01 15:52:50.920363305 +0200 @@ -302,6 +302,7 @@ } unless (kill 0, `cat $pidFile`) { warn "Could not start Xvnc.\n\n"; + unlink $pidFile; open(LOG, "<$desktopLog"); while () { print; } close(LOG); @@ -587,7 +588,12 @@ print "X DISPLAY #\tPROCESS ID\n"; foreach my $file (@filelist) { if ($file =~ /$host:(\d+)$\.pid/) { - print ":".$1."\t\t".`cat $vncUserDir/$file`; + chop($tmp_pid = `cat $vncUserDir/$file`); + if (kill 0, $tmp_pid) { + print ":".$1."\t\t".`cat $vncUserDir/$file`; + } else { + unlink ($vncUserDir . "/" . $file); + } } } exit 1;