By "duplicate" I really meant they are identical. And from the error message it seems it try to open it without luck. I don't understand how it could work for you :)
I think a lot of these problems have been fixed in newer debian packages. They should be backported to dapper. Anyway, I resolved most of my troubles by installing vnc4server instead of vncserver. -- vncserver looks in the wrong place for rgb.txt https://launchpad.net/bugs/64877 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs