Hi,

Thanks for your report!

2011/2/13 Shankar <sg.backupo...@gmail.com>:
> Package: slim
> Version: 1.3.1-8
> Severity: important
>
> I am using slim on a fresh Debian Squeeze install.  The install in question is
> a Debian Live CD image created with the "standard-x11" package list and 
> running
> in persistent mode (this should make it equivalent to a standard Squeeze
> install with just Xorg, no DE / WM installed).  I installed xfce4 package and
> then installed the slim package.
>
> I then do sudo init 1 followed by sudo init 5 to restart the X server (or,
> alternatively, restart the computer).  Slim comes up and I am able to login
> normally.  The first program I open runs.  Every program after that fails with
> an MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE error.  "xhosts +" reports "cannot open display :0.0".
>
> To avoid this and get a working X configuration, I disabled slim by running
> "sudo insserv -r slim."  X runs fine after that without a display manager.
>
> Have not tried other display managers so am not sure if this error occurs in
> them as well.
>

Is xauth packagr installed in your environment? Please check this.

Because this work even if this package does not install it, I do not
set it in Depends.
But I will set in Recommends.

Best regards,
  Nobuhiro
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Nobuhiro Iwamatsu
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