[Xquartz-dev] 2.3.0-rc4

Merle Reinhart merlereinhart at mac.com
Sun Jun 15 14:18:01 PDT 2008


Ok.  That isn't quite it.  I was able to create the problem by  
deleting the .Xauthority and all the .serverauth.* files in my home  
directory.  However, with 10.5.3, I haven't been able to figure out a  
way to make it start working again so far.

Merle


On Jun 15, 2008, at 5:07 PM, Merle Reinhart wrote:

> I was finally able to I think create the problem...  no .Xauthority
> file prior to X11 startup.
>
> I fixed it by doing
>
> touch ~/.XAuthority
>
> then running an X11 app (eg oclock) to startup X11.
>
> Merle
>
>
> On Jun 15, 2008, at 4:38 PM, Martin Costabel wrote:
>
>> Vincent Morénas wrote:
>>> This is exactly the symptom I've been experiencing (see my preceding
>>> post for 2.3.0-rc3) and that I (wrongly) believed to be related to a
>>> crash of the server that occured a short time before.
>>> I still have the problem with 2.3.0-rc4 on two different PPC macs
>>> under 10.5.3 (note that if I deselect the "authenticate connexions"
>>> checkbox, the problem disappears).
>>> I also installed 2.3.0-rc4 on an intel mac : works as expected
>>> there !!!
>>
>> I am seeing the problem on a MacBookPro which is intel.
>>
>> But unchecking the Authenticate connections preference does indeed
>> solve
>> (or hide) the problem.
>>
>> -- 
>> Martin
>>
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