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Fophillips

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Registered: 2007-06-06

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[SOLVED] Error in locking authority file

After reinstalling Arch, when trying to start X, I get the error:

xauth: error in locking authority file /home/fophillips/.Xauthority

The file ~/.Xauthority exists and is writable, and when I run: xauth -f ~/.testauth it completes without an error. I used hwd to configure my xorg.conf

Does anyone know what is wrong?

Thanks

Last edited by Fophillips (2007-06-18 17:11:18)

KomodoDave

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From: Oxford, UK

Registered: 2007-04-22

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Re: [SOLVED] Error in locking authority file

try doing

$ su
$ chown -r fophillips /home/fophillips

- Dave

klixon

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From: Nederland

Registered: 2007-01-17

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Re: [SOLVED] Error in locking authority file

better try

# chown -R

or you get an error-msg

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Fophillips

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Registered: 2007-06-06

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Re: [SOLVED] Error in locking authority file

I have already tried, and it still won't work.

Ramses de Norre

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From: Leuven - Belgium

Registered: 2007-03-27

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Re: [SOLVED] Error in locking authority file

Have you tried moving the Xauth away and letting X make a new one? That helped me once with such an issue.

Fophillips

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Registered: 2007-06-06

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Re: [SOLVED] Error in locking authority file

It's just an empty file, so I removed it, and it still doesn't work.

Fophillips

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Re: [SOLVED] Error in locking authority file

Okay, I removed .Xauthority* which were all empty, and it created new ones. But now, I'm getting an I/O error 104 Connection Reset by Peer

KomodoDave

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From: Oxford, UK

Registered: 2007-04-22

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Re: [SOLVED] Error in locking authority file

better try

# chown -R

or you get an error-msg

I wish there was a standard for the recursion parameter, I continually use -R for the -r CLI apps, and vice-versa *slaps forehead*

Okay, I removed .Xauthority* which were all empty, and it created new ones. But now, I'm getting an I/O error 104 Connection Reset by Peer

Posting your most recent Xorg log file would be helpful (/var/log/Xorg.0.log for example). There should be a reason given for that I/O error, eg. problems with the font server. If it is problems with the font server, I *think* you do

$ /etc/init.d/xfs status

to check the status...

- Dave

Last edited by KomodoDave (2007-06-18 15:22:06)

Fophillips

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Registered: 2007-06-06

Posts: 13

Re: [SOLVED] Error in locking authority file

http://titonia.com/xorg.conf
http://titonia.com/Xorg.0.log

Okay fixed. I reinstalled the nvidia drivers and it works.

Last edited by Fophillips (2007-06-18 17:11:00)