.Xauthority bug
Baza
baza at themauvezone.fsnet.co.uk
Sun May 1 14:15:23 UTC 2005
On 1/5/05 04:03, "david" <nux at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-05-01 at 03:16 +0100, baza wrote:
>> Here's a weird bug I've found in Hoary.
>>
>> From time to time the ownership of my .Xauthority file switches from me
>> to root. As a result I can't log in until I've changed the permissions
>> of the file back again from console.
>>
>> Baza
>>
>
> I kept getting this and it in the end it turned out to be whenever I had
> used k3b as root.
> chown-ing the file after shutting down k3b made the problem go away.
>
> Hope that rings a bell.
>
> nux
>
>
Hmmm... Sure does. Thanx
Baza
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