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I can not get xorg to work properly. When I am in root everything is fine, but when I login to my user X shutsdown and says
"xauth: error in locking authority file /home/otacon/.Xauthority"
I can not seem to find an answer to this file just reading the wikis.
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Last edited by otacon (2009-07-13 17:01:41)
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ls -l ~/.Xauthority
Who owns it and what are the permissions?
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I believe that everything in my home section is under my permissions. Correct me if I am wrong. I am not sure off hand how to check to see who has permissions on items--------- ok so according to kde my user and the user group is the owner. with read write permissions
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I am not sure off hand how to check to see who has permissions on items
It is explained in the above post
ls -l ~/.Xauthority
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