This can happen if you "su" to root using a user id that is separate
from root but uses the same home directory. For instance instead of
sharing root we give out individual root. For instance mine reads:
rootmf:x:0:0:Super Matt Fahrner:/home/matt:/bin/csh
If I "su" under certain circumstances it re-writes the ".Xauth*" files
as root then when I go to log in as myself I can't login into X without
hangs and stuff. Resolution, remove the ".Xauth*" files and restart your
X services.
At least for the problem below...
- Matt
Wesley Griffin wrote:
>
> * Steven Boswell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [06/20/00 14:00]:
> > My question is....when X Windows starts doing this, how the hell do we
> > debug it?
>
> look at the :0.log file in /var/gdm
> I've had this happen on 3 different boxes over the last 2-3 weeks.
> they're development machines, so they get rebooted constantly, and gdm
> wasn't necessary, so I just disabled it. If you're having the same
> problem I was having, :0.log should show a bunch of xauth errors. the
> server is being started, but nothing seems to have authority to
> connect, including gdm.
>
> I don't have time right now to try and fix it, so I just set the
> default run level to 3, but if anybody figures this out, please post to
> the list, I wouldn't mind having gdm running again.
>
> .wes
>
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