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Date:      Tue, 18 Apr 2006 15:06:09 -0500
From:      "Zimmerman, Eric" <Zimmerman.Eric@con-way.com>
To:        "eoghan" <freebsd@redry.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: x?
Message-ID:  <12AAD6CC50A25841834F43955F39B66E040F6464@qgaes001.conway.prod.con-way.com>

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> Ok to reply to myself:
> x just quit itself after about 3 mins (too impatient!)...
> the error is:
> /usr/X11R6/bin/xinit: Server error.
> /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth: error in locking authority file
/home/ej/.Xauthority
> This was working fine, but just today it has stopped working. Only
thing
> i have installed since was sudo.
> sudo startx works, but loads the root session, i would prefer my
own...
> Any ideas?


Google told me this:

Sounds like you have a stale authority file.  Try just deleting it
before the next time you start up...



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