Merle Reinhart wrote:
Ok. The problem is the .Xauthority file.
Starting X11 I get the error everyone is talking about after I deleted the .Xauthority file. An empty one didn't solve the problem, it wanted actual contents.
1) So, I started X11, got the errror. 2) cp .Xauthority my.Xauthority # The idea here is to save a valid file 3) quit X11. This deletes the contents of the .Xauthority file which means the next time you start up X11, you get the error 4) cp my.Xauthority .Xauthority # This gives X11 some contents on startup 5) startup X11 and no error.
I can confirm this, with the addition: 6) Subsequent starts of xterm w/o X11: No error. So it seems quitting X11 kills the ~/.Xauthority file, but only if it was dead or non-existent at X11 startup. If there was a valid non-empty ~/.Xauthority file when X11 started, it will not be destroyed at quitting X11. Weird. -- Martin