.Xauthority problems when starting up

a_priebe47 · 08-07-2004, 02:28 PM

I'm using Slackware 10, KDE 3.2. It never used to do this but now, whenever I try and log in on a user other then root, it says "No write access to $Home /home/a_priebe47". Is there a way to fix this? Thanks.

Cedrik · 08-07-2004, 02:39 PM

try chown a_priebe47 /home/a_priebe47/.Xauthority

a_priebe47 · 08-07-2004, 03:06 PM

Hmm, didn't seem to fix the problem. Here is what happens when I type startx:

Code:

xauth: timeout in locking authority file

It prints that out 3 times, and the switches to the kde background and a pop windows comes up saying the couldn't write ti $home /home/a_priebe47 thing, and then there is another window that pops up saying:

Code:

Could not start ksmserver.

I also noticed that my Xauthority file is blank. Any more ideas? I've recently installed Smaug in my home dir. Thanks.

Cedrik · 08-07-2004, 03:20 PM

I would try to mv /home/a_priebe47/.Xauthority /home/a_priebe47/.Xauthority.bak

Then try to startx again

If that fails, try man xauth to figure out, maybe a fix can be ' xauth generate :0 '...

xp1o1d5 · 09-20-2004, 02:01 PM

Somethin that might help anyone who still has this prob i did chown -R /home/yourusrname and that took care of the prob but u might wont to give some files root as the owner! Hoped this helped someone!

itnet7 · 03-17-2005, 01:07 PM

Man,

I did the chown username /username.... and it works. Thanks a bunch I was beginning to pull out my hair!

Itnet7

itnet7 · 03-22-2005, 01:03 AM

After doing an apt-get update on me home Debian machine.... I encountered the same issue.
I was receiving the .Xauthority problems....

chown -R <username> /home/<username>

as root.

This has now helped me twice! Thanks so much for taking the time to post.

ITnet7