Re: [Trisquel-users] startx : stuck in a loop

[greatgnu]

Well, that's strange, hack. That never happened to me, but reading on the  
webz I found several pages describing the very same issue. The most common  
root of the problem appears to be the file is owned by root and not by the  
user. The two main solutions were to (as Maqique said), to simply remove the  
file and restart x. The other one was the one I copied and pasted for you,  
which doesn't really add anything to what you already tried other than  
backing up the old file (mv .Xauthority .Xauthority.old)  and creating a new  
one (touch .Xauthority).
Too bad you had to reinstall, I used to do that a lot until I realized it is  
a huge waste of time, unless the issue is indeed definitely over my head.  
cheers.