> my workstation's hostname is the same as my login
> username, which is (obviously) also the name of my home directory.
> And yet, I've never seen this problem before.
> So, there are definitely a few more variables involved in this one.
To reproduce, run xauth list $(hostname -f):0 from a direct
I seem to have rediscovered Debian bug 889720
xauth crashes when directory name matches host name
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=889720
(Feb 2018)
So, nothing to do with the Bullseye upgrade.
I must have created that directory-matching-hostname in the
process of setting up for t
Felix -
Felix Miata wrote:
> Is the problem avoided if you login via a display manager (gdm, sddm, lightdm,
> etc.) instead of using startx?
Beats me. I don't have any software like that installed.
Would they run xauth before or after cd'ing to my home directory?
- Larry
P.S. Sorry about b
Esteemed Debian experts and maintainers -
On Sun, Mar 27, 2022 at 11:26:37PM -0700, Larry Doolittle wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 27, 2022 at 10:45:03PM -0700, Larry Doolittle wrote:
> > I just upgraded my first machine from 11.2 to 11.3.
> > xauth fails in the context of startx.
> Wor
Esteemed Debian experts and maintainers -
On Sun, Mar 27, 2022 at 10:45:03PM -0700, Larry Doolittle wrote:
> I just upgraded my first machine from 11.2 to 11.3.
> xauth fails in the context of startx.
> Message is
> xauth: timeout in locking authority file /home/[redacted]/.Xauth
Esteemed Debian experts and maintainers -
I just upgraded my first machine from 11.2 to 11.3.
xauth fails in the context of startx.
Message is
xauth: timeout in locking authority file /home/[redacted]/.Xauthority
both in the startx console, and if I run "xauth list"
in the resulting X session.
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