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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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