[Xquartz-dev] XQuartz 2.7.0 (xorg-server 1.11.0) and MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1

Jeremy Huddleston jeremyhu at apple.com
Mon Sep 26 13:00:02 PDT 2011


It looks like ~/.Xauthority is incorrect.  Nuke it and restart your server.

On Sep 26, 2011, at 02:05, Peter Dyballa wrote:

> Hello!
> 
> Yesterday I launched this X server from MacPorts for the first time. This morning, after waking my MacBook, I get
> 
> 	Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyInvalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyInvalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyInvalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keygv: Unable to open the display.
> 
> in the shell where it worked yesterday to launch gv.
> 
> --
> Greetings
> 
>  Pete
> 
> People say that if you play Microsoft CD's backwards, you hear satanic things, but that's nothing, because if you play them forwards, they install MS Windows.
> 
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