On Sun, Feb 16, 2025 at 13:53:21 +0000, Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote:
> echo $DISPLAY -> :0
> xhost -> access control enabled, only authorized clients can connect
>
> > echo $XAUTHORITY
> >
> > The last usually points to ~/.Xauthority.
>
> echo $XAUTHORITY -> ~/.Xauthority
That should not *literally* be ~/.Xauthority of course.
hobbit:~$ declare -p XAUTHORITY
declare -x XAUTHORITY="/home/greg/.Xauthority"
> I do not have ~/.xsession-errors.
Well now, *that* is quite strange.
One of the things that the Debian /etc/X11/Xsession script does is this:
ERRFILE=$HOME/.xsession-errors
[...]
# attempt to create an error file; abort if we cannot
if (umask 077 && touch "$ERRFILE") 2> /dev/null && [ -w "$ERRFILE" ] &&
[ ! -L "$ERRFILE" ]; then
chmod 600 "$ERRFILE"
elif ERRFILE=$(mktemp 2> /dev/null); then
if ! ln -sf "$ERRFILE" "${TMPDIR:=/tmp}/xsession-$USER"; then
message "warning: unable to symlink \"$TMPDIR/xsession-$USER\" to" \
"\"$ERRFILE\"; look for session log/errors in" \
"\"$TMPDIR/xsession-$USER\"."
fi
else
errormsg "unable to create X session log/error file; aborting."
fi
So... I wonder if your HOME directory's permissions are screwed up.
What does ls -ld ~ give you? Might as well check all of them while
we're at it: ls -ld / /home ~
Here, I'll start:
hobbit:~$ ls -ld / /home ~
drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 Feb 9 09:03 //
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Feb 17 2024 /home/
drwxr-xr-x 231 greg greg 65536 Feb 16 11:15 /home/greg/
Also, is there anything that looks like an xsession-$USER file in /tmp?
Or any regular files in /tmp owned by you that have X session output
in them?
