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Date:      Wed, 21 May 1997 15:51:16 +0200
From:      "P. van Leeuwen" <pvl@nanoteq.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Xauthority
Message-ID:  <199705211351.PAA00530@pc-pvl.nanoteq.co.za>

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Hi 

I managed to screw the xauthority on my machine in some way. I noticed that exmh's 
background process stopped working. My .xsession-errors show the following : 

BgRegister X server insecure (must use xauth-style authorization); command ignored
BgRegister X server insecure (must use xauth-style authorization); command ignored
exmh-bg cannot rendez-vous with UI - exiting.
  Usually this is because Tk send is not working.
  Check the notes under Frequently Asked Questions #4a and #4b.
  You can find this under the Help menu.

I did RTFM, and checked all the xdm config files as well as my ~/Xauthority and 
everything checks out. I ran xdm -debug 1 and that looks OK too, except that 
right after it prints out the environment, it says :

Unsecure display 0:

Earlier on it said Secure though.

My ~/Xauthority is empty when X isn't running and contains 2 entries when I start xdm.
No other programs except tk stuff complain about anything such as opening the display.

Does anyone have any idea what I did or how to fix it?

pierre

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Pierre-Andre van Leeuwen
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