.Xauthority

noff · Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2002 3:27 am Post subject: .Xauthority

I can have been running kde as root because I've been installing. I setup a new user
but when I try to startx as that user I get

xauth: timeout unable to lock /home/noff/.Xauthority

I copied the .Xauthority from root and changed user and group but it still doesn't work?

I have to run kde as root now which is BAD.
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ebrostig · Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2002 3:45 am Post subject: Re: .Xauthority

rac · Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2002 4:46 am Post subject:

What are the permissions and filesystem type on your home directory?
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noff · Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2002 4:51 am Post subject: Didn't work

I did all those steps and it didn't work. This is really frustrating. I really don't want to be running as root.
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noff · Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2002 4:58 am Post subject: Permissions

Permissions of folder was root, I just set everything to user.
The filesystem is reiserfs.
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rac · Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2002 5:17 am Post subject:

Make sure that your user owns everything in her home directory:

noff · Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2002 5:43 am Post subject: It worked

It must have been the permissions. Thanks a lot everyone.

Yes it's Larry Wall, the quote is from a Newsforge article by Tom Chance.
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rac · Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2002 5:45 am Post subject:

Glad it's working now. Please do stick around - we need more JAPHs in here to counteract all the Pythonian energy surrounding Gentoo.
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