We had some unusual problems when running a vncserver on Solaris that
included blank screens, and failure to start a vncserver.

The problem is fixed by changing the permissions on some files in the tmp
directory.

> ls -la /tmp/.X11*
drwxrwxr-x   2 root     root         104 Nov 13 18:28 .X11-pipe/
drwxrwxr-x   2 root     root         104 Nov 13 18:28 .X11-unix/

these are a problem because all users do not have permission to modify these
directories.

fix the problem as the root user:
cd /tmp
chmod 777 .X11*

Note that this has to be done each time the machine is booted as these files
are in the /tmp directory which gets deleted on startup.

I believe that these directories are used by more applications than
vncserver, but by default they appear to be created without permissions for
everyone to modify them.
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