.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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