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AmphAnyx

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Registered: 2022-05-09

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xauth startup error(?)

Everytime I boot up my system I get the following message:

/usr/bin/xauth: (argv):1: key contains odd number of or non-hex characters

Everything boots up fine and I've never encountered any issue regarding that message, still it seems like something that should be "fixed".
Can someone maybe explain what that message actually means and how I'd "fix" that?

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 74,307

Re: xauth startup error(?)

What and how starts X11?
Something™ attempts "xauth add" but w/o context it's impossible to say what calls xauth in this case.

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AmphAnyx

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Registered: 2022-05-09

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Re: xauth startup error(?)

What and how starts X11?

I feel so stupid that I didn't even thought about that, even though it's so obvious.
I've been using LY as a DisplayManger. When I disabled it and only used startx no errors occured.
So I managed to "fix" it now, I suppose - recently I've been looking into different shells and tried out fish and changed my login shell to fish to via 'chsh', because I was trying out different commands as well. I now tested to boot with LY and my login shell set to bash and again with zsh, and no errors occured. I guess that the script used by LY to login does something with the login shell that fish doesn't like?

Well, thanks I guess lol

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 74,307

Re: xauth startup error(?)

Probably related to some environment - if you want to compare the shell, look at HOME, the resolution of "~" and everything XDG

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hashino

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Registered: 2024-01-08

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Re: xauth startup error(?)

had the same issue while using ly as a display manager and fish as my default shell.

although i couldn't find the cause of the issue and a solution for it (this is the closest i got), changing the xauth_cmd in my /etc/ly/config.ini to:

xauth_cmd = /usr/bin/xauth > /dev/null 2>&1

hid the error during login.

2ManyDogs

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Registered: 2012-01-15

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Re: xauth startup error(?)

Closing this old topic.