Re: vbox sid invalid mcookie

2011-07-23 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2011-07-22, Cousin Stanley cousinstan...@hotmail.com wrote: Liam O'Toole wrote gdm should create .Xauthority for you, without the need to manually do the xauth stuff. That's what I thought too after reading the xauth man page Normally xauth is not used to

Re: vbox sid invalid mcookie

2011-07-23 Thread Cousin Stanley
Liam O'Toole wrote: I think something is broken in the terminal emulator. You are able to launch gnome-terminal itself (presumably from the menu or the Alt-F2 dialog), Yes gnome-terminal menu // Alt-F2 lxterminal desktop icon // Alt-F2 xterm

Re: vbox sid invalid mcookie

2011-07-22 Thread Cousin Stanley
Liam O'Toole wrote gdm should create .Xauthority for you, without the need to manually do the xauth stuff. That's what I thought too after reading the xauth man page Normally xauth is not used to create the authority file entry in the first place; the program

Re: vbox sid invalid mcookie

2011-07-19 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2011-07-18, Cousin Stanley cousinstan...@hotmail.com wrote: Cousin Stanley wrote : Using a debian squeeze host for a Virtual Box 4.0.12 debian sid guest, about a month ago I started having invalid magic cookie problems when trying to do anything X related from a terminal Liam

Re: vbox sid invalid mcookie

2011-07-19 Thread Cousin Stanley
Liam O'Toole wrote: That strongly suggests that the problem lies within the sid guest. How do you start X there? Usually one would use startx or a display manager, launch a terminal within the session, and launch programs from the terminal at will. I'm using gnome 2.30.2 and login

Re: vbox sid invalid mcookie

2011-07-18 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2011-07-17, Cousin Stanley cousinstan...@hotmail.com wrote: Using a debian squeeze host for a Virtual Box 4.0.12 debian sid guest, about a month ago I started having invalid magic cookie problems when trying to do anything X related from a terminal (...) Are you running

Re: vbox sid invalid mcookie

2011-07-18 Thread Cousin Stanley
Cousin Stanley wrote : Using a debian squeeze host for a Virtual Box 4.0.12 debian sid guest, about a month ago I started having invalid magic cookie problems when trying to do anything X related from a terminal Liam O'Toole replied : Are you running applications entirely within

vbox sid invalid mcookie

2011-07-17 Thread Cousin Stanley
Using a debian squeeze host for a Virtual Box 4.0.12 debian sid guest, about a month ago I started having invalid magic cookie problems when trying to do anything X related from a terminal I think it started after updating xorg in the sid guest, but I don't know that for sure