Error In Locking Authority File Home User .xauthority
cyclotomic Member From: New York Registered: 2008-07-08 Posts: 52 Error in locking authority file .Xauthority [Solved] Hi,I am having a little trouble with X after a fresh install. I can start X fine as root, but as a normal user it just says "error in locking authority file .Xauthority." I have never had this problem before so I don't really know what do to, and searching didn't clear anything up for me, so if someone could give me some advice I'd be very grateful.Thanks.Edit: Solved by deleting all the .Xauthority files and starting X again. Last edited by cyclotomic (2009-06-07 07:08:22) Offline #2 2009-06-06 20:45:33 Misfit138 Misfit Emeritus From: USA Registered: 2006-11-27 Posts: 4,170 Re: Error in locking authority file .Xauthority [Solved] Check the permissions on ~/.Xauthority, and make sure your non-root user owns it. You could also just delete it as normal non-root user and try again- it will get re-created when you run xinit/startx. Amiga 1000 microATX modIBM PCjr retrobuildC=64 RasPi build Offline #3 2009-06-06 21:08:24 cyclotomic Member From: New York Registered: 2008-07-08 Posts: 52 Re: Error in locking authority file .Xauthority [Solved] Thanks, that worked. I just deleted all the .Xauthority files and it worked fine. Offline #4 2009-06-06 21:19:41 Misfit138 Misfit Emeritus From: USA Registered: 2006-11-27 Posts: 4,170 Re: Error in locking authority file .Xauthority [Solved] NP. Next time don't fiddle around in your home directory as root. Please mark your thread as [solved] Amiga 1000 microATX modIBM PCjr retrobuildC=64 RasPi build Offline Pages: 1 Index »Newbie Corner »Error in locking authority file .Xauthority [Solved] Board footer Jump to Newbie Corner Installation Kernel & Hardware Applications & Desktop Environments Laptop Issues Networking, Server, and Protection Multimedia and Games System Administration Other Architectures Announcements, Package & Security Advisories Arch Discussion Forum & Wiki discussion Pacman & Package Upgrade Issues [testing] Repo Forum Creating & Modifying Packages AUR Issues, Discussion & PKGBUILD Requests GNU/Linux Discussion Community Contributions Programming & Scripting Other Languages Artwork and Screenshots Atom topic feed Powered by FluxBB
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