Unable to open another instnce of openoffice when home directory of a user is shared among different user session over vnc

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Issue

  • I am running muliple instances of vncserver with one user account

vncserver :1
vncserver :2

  • I am connecting to these Xvnc instances from different machines using vncviewer command

vncviewer IP:1
vncviewer IP:2

  • I am not able to open openoffice in another instance of vnc session if openoffice is already opened in the first connection.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • Xvnc server running on different display as same user
  • openoffice

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