Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 15:21:09 -0500 From: "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com> To: eoghan <freebsd@redry.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: x? Message-ID: <d7195cff0604181321g2b0d53ddq88a41a68010c9422@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <444545F4.50203@redry.net> References: <44454474.4030902@redry.net> <444545F4.50203@redry.net>
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On 4/18/06, eoghan <freebsd@redry.net> wrote: > eoghan wrote: > > It should start gnome, but now all i get it the x cursor on the > > grey/black screen and i dont know how to exit out... > 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/.Xauthorit= y Control-alt-backspace is the "standard" salut for helping X go away. Alternately, one can control-alt-F[1-8] to get to a virtual console and kill the server from the command line. Waiting for it to die is a gerund. As someone else pointed out, you most likely need merely to delete the offending .Xauthority file. -- --
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