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Fix the VNC "Black Screen" on older versions of OS X
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Occasionally on older versions of OS X, connecting to a remote system via VNC will result in a "Black Screen" that is non-responsive. To fix this, kill the loginwindow process:

$ ps ax | grep loginwindow
   83   ??  Ss     0:00.89 /System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app/Contents/MacOS/loginwindow console
$ sudo kill 83

loginwindow will automatically restart and the login screen will appear.

Thanks to Mac Mini World!

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or, just use sudo killall loginwindow!

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