I have seen the same problem (I do not know if it is related to GDM, but
this is with hardy).
At the moment it's particularly bad; .Xauthority reverts to root:root
within a second of changing it by hand to user:user.
It seems to be atieventsd which is the trigger of this (but possibly not
the cau
I forgot to say: This also happened immediately after "aptitude dist-
upgrade". A number of packages were updated, including gdm.
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After gdm upgrade no X cliens can be run
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Again today, after dist-upgrade. But this time gdm was not upgraded,
although xorg-driver-fglrx (which has atieventsd) was.
I tried to look deeper into this, and it seems that in this case it is
caused by atieventsd calling "xauth add/remove -f /home/xxx/.Xauthority"
as root, which triggers the ow
