From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 18 20:21:10 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8EE916A404 for ; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 20:21:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: from xproxy.gmail.com (xproxy.gmail.com [66.249.82.199]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 108B943D49 for ; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 20:21:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: by xproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id r21so535148wxc for ; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 13:21:09 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=OYLDkM259xzJDe7YO3ejrE0taaXq1TmjsAM7WsTvvbvrc+V+nrF1ajXUbMQrgpUGkzXjdTkh4v4p86CzYvYmzd4o+us7W8/P8NaaQJ6V9/md3IqtlvCZyML7zdrY3WcXcKGHBpq8Q9RycXA7sZ6w/KkXFQZIVl1BEXrET2Unipw= Received: by 10.70.50.19 with SMTP id x19mr7068504wxx; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 13:21:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.70.57.15 with HTTP; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 13:21:09 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 15:21:09 -0500 From: "illoai@gmail.com" To: eoghan In-Reply-To: <444545F4.50203@redry.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <44454474.4030902@redry.net> <444545F4.50203@redry.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: x? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 20:21:10 -0000 On 4/18/06, eoghan 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. -- --