On Fri, 16 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > An update on the Xauthority problem 8-) > > On a wild idea, I commented out any references to initializing XAUTHORITY > anywhere in the system. Lo and behold, xauth worked and I now have good > .Xauthority files for root and other users! I did logout all users to reset > all the enviroment variables before using 'xauth'. > > Is this a feature or a bug?
I don't know why it is behaving like that. Could you post the exact lines to this list? Then somebody can have a look at them. > BTW, now xdm won't finish booting for any user other than root. I get the > initial Xserver screen, then return to login. That might be caused by the .xsession file in root's home directory or by /etc/X11/Xsession if the former does not exist. Take a look at them. You can also try to remove the .Xauthority file and log in again. Remco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
