When you login as a user then su to root and startx for the first time,
it sounds like the authentication files are being set up for root.
Delete the user, recreate the user, login as the user, startx as the
user and see how that works.
Tom
"=?ISO-8859-2?Q?Deim_�goston?=" wrote:
>
> Hi !
>
> I just ran into an annoying problem. I logged in as a normal user
> but I had to "su" (I didn't want to open another console). I typed the
> password an voila' ! After that I started KDE and doing the
> administration trough GUI. I logged out and wanted to start X in the
> name of user. But it didn't start just gave me the message that the
> user didn't have write permission to /home/username/.Xauthority
> file. I hit the CTRL+C twice and I was able start KDE. And the
> xauth was right: I didn't succeed to do any changes on my desktop
> including Language and keyboard section. After that I checked the
> owner of the file is root:root . The same thing happened with MD6.1
> on my mother's machine. I deleted the user and the problem
> solved. But that's not a _real_solution_ ! Second time the I got the
> message after a minute : xauth: timeout in locking the file
> /home/username/.Xauthority . Another CTRL+C and KDE worked. I
> just wondering is there a _real_ solution and what caused this.
> Thanx,
> Ago
>
> "If you love somebody set them free..."
> Sting is GPL fan :-))
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