[Xquartz-dev] XQuartz 2.6.0 (xorg-server 1.9.2.901) and X authority

[Jeremy Huddleston]

What is your $DISPLAY set to?  Connections over the launchd socket shouldn't be using xauth.

On Dec 23, 2010, at 12:20, Peter Dyballa wrote:

> Hello!
> 
> Some time ago double-clicked somehow on an X client in Finder. A new X server was launched that this client could display. Afterwards, when I tried to launch an X client from the command line or the menu off the "original" X server it happened that a message similar to that one was displayed (this one by GNU Emacs):
> 
> 	Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyInvalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyInvalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyInvalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyDisplay :0 unavailable, simulating -nw
> 
> Clearly the second server updated .Xauthority and .serverauth.<PID>, so I could understand the issue. But this evening the two files are old, as old as these processes
> 
>  UID   PID  PPID       F CPU PRI NI       SZ    RSS WCHAN     S   ADDR TTY           TIME CMD
>  501  1356     1    4000   0  31  0    76024    132 -      S    658ebe8 ??         0:00.06 /bin/sh /opt/local/bin/startx
>  501  1397  1356    4000   0  31  0    76820    128 -      S    658ee20 ??         0:00.01 xinit /opt/local/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc -- /opt/local/bin/X :0 -dpi 96 -auth /Users/pete/.serverauth.1356
>  501  1398  1397    4000   0  31  0    75380    132 -      S    658e540 ??         0:00.01 /opt/local/bin/X :0 -dpi 96 -auth /Users/pete/.serverauth.1356
> 
> from almost three weeks ago. Why is this MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 message displayed today and no access granted to the X server?
> 
> --
> Greetings
> 
>  Pete
> 
> Encryption, n.:
> 	A powerful algorithmic encoding technique employed in the creation of computer manuals.
> 
> 
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