I had the same error (gdm-simple-slave[3514]: WARNING: Unable to connect to display ::1:1) but found it was a problem with the parameter I sent to the VNC server. I was using vnc4server and used the parameter '-query localhost' when starting up Xvnc. In fact, I needed to use '-query 127.0.0.1'. My /etc/hosts does have localhost mapping to 127.0.0.1, but I found the query option still needed the IP.
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