On 06/08/2015 17:56, Markus Hoenicka wrote:
I've upgraded my setup yesterday and ran into a problem running the X
server. X ran just fine before the upgrade, just like any X client I
threw at it. I'm aware that some defaults have changed in the couple of
months since I upgraded, and I hope I've done everything the FAQ
recommends to accommodate these changes. However, no joy.
Starting the X server now is noticeably slower, regardless of how I
start it (Windows start menu, startx, or my hitherto preferred method
startxwin). Biggest problem though is that local X clients cannot
connect. The server output is like this:
$ startxwin /usr/bin/xterm
xauth: file /home/markus.hoenicka/.Xauthority does not exist
xauth: file /home/markus.hoenicka/.Xauthority does not exist
xauth: file /home/markus.hoenicka/.Xauthority does not exist
xauth: file /home/markus.hoenicka/.Xauthority does not exist
startxwin is just a shell script (based on the standard startx), which
invokes xauth to add an authorization cookie to ~/Xauthority (which is
also passed to the server using the -auth option)
The file ~/.Xauthority is created during startup, and it is empty
after the server shuts down. It does not make any difference if I
remove the empty file before restarting the X server.
It should have some (binary) content while the server is running, but
that seems to be failing to happen, for some reason.
As a workaround I can start XWin manually like this:
/usr/bin/XWin :0 -multiwindow
This works, of course, because this doesn't use -auth.
However, I suppose the default behaviour of startx and startxwin was not
intended to perform like this. Did I miss something obvious?
Indeed.
Is there anything unusual about your home directory?
You might try modifying startxwin to remove the -q from xauth -q to see
if that reveals a bit more information.
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Jon TURNEY
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