[ale] Trying to repair my X mistakes.............

[Ken Nagorski]

Hi there,

I am not for sure... But I think you can delete the .Xauthority file and
start over. 

Ken.

On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, Michael Smith wrote:

> I somehow removed or changed permissions on some file that allows me to run
> X as a non root user.  Here is what I am getting:
> 
> [shmoe at hercules shmoe]$ startx
> Authentication failed - cannot start X server.
> Perhaps you do not have console ownership?
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key
> giving up.
> xinit:  unable to connect to X server
> xinit:  No such process (errno 3):  Server error.
> 
> It's strange that if I run xdm I can use X as any user.  I think I have
> issues with my .Xauthority file but I don't know specifically what's wrong.
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