I found the solution. I needed to backout the following patches.
112807-18
112661-11
112785-58
The first two depend upon the last one, which was the culprit. Patch
112785-58 includes a broken X font server, which would crash. inetd
would occasionally kill the fs.auto service and then restart
I'm running the free distribution of RealVNC 4.1.2. I installed the
Solaris 9 Recommended patch bundle I downloaded on Feb 21, 2007 onto
my Solaris 9 systems last night. This was primarily done to get the
updates for the DST changes. Now, we're having trouble using VNC.
Here's the arguments