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Date:      Tue, 18 Apr 2006 22:16:04 +0200
From:      albi <albi@scii.nl>
To:        eoghan <freebsd@redry.net>
Cc:        freebsd@redry.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: x?
Message-ID:  <20060418221604.7899e4c2.albi@scii.nl>
In-Reply-To: <444545F4.50203@redry.net>
References:  <44454474.4030902@redry.net> <444545F4.50203@redry.net>

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On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 21:03:00 +0100
eoghan <freebsd@redry.net> wrote:

> 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?

rm -rf ~/.Xauthority

and try starting X again

-- 
grtjs, albi
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