Re: vbox sid invalid mcookie

2011-07-23 Thread Cousin Stanley
Liam O'Toole wrote: > I think something is broken in the terminal emulator. > > You are able to launch gnome-terminal itself > (presumably from the menu or the Alt-F2 dialog), Yes gnome-terminal menu // Alt-F2 lxterminal desktop icon // Alt-F2 xterm ..

Re: vbox sid invalid mcookie

2011-07-23 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2011-07-22, Cousin Stanley wrote: > > Liam O'Toole wrote > >>> gdm should create .Xauthority for you, >>> without the need to manually do the xauth stuff. > > That's what I thought too > after reading the xauth man page > >"Normally xauth is not used > to create the auth

Re: vbox sid invalid mcookie

2011-07-22 Thread Cousin Stanley
Liam O'Toole wrote >> gdm should create .Xauthority for you, >> without the need to manually do the xauth stuff. That's what I thought too after reading the xauth man page "Normally xauth is not used to create the authority file entry in the first place; the program

Re: vbox sid invalid mcookie

2011-07-19 Thread Cousin Stanley
Liam O'Toole wrote: > That strongly suggests that the problem lies within the sid guest. > > How do you start X there? Usually one would use startx or a display manager, > launch a terminal within the session, and launch programs from the > terminal at will. I'm using gnome 2.30.2 and login

Re: vbox sid invalid mcookie

2011-07-19 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2011-07-18, Cousin Stanley wrote: > > Cousin Stanley wrote : > >>> Using a debian squeeze host for a Virtual Box 4.0.12 >>> debian sid guest, about a month ago I started having >>> invalid magic cookie problems when trying to do >>> anything X related from a terminal > > Liam O'Toole rep

Re: vbox sid invalid mcookie

2011-07-18 Thread Cousin Stanley
Cousin Stanley wrote : >> Using a debian squeeze host for a Virtual Box 4.0.12 >> debian sid guest, about a month ago I started having >> invalid magic cookie problems when trying to do >> anything X related from a terminal Liam O'Toole replied : > Are you running applications > entirel

Re: vbox sid invalid mcookie

2011-07-18 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2011-07-17, Cousin Stanley wrote: > > Using a debian squeeze host for a Virtual Box 4.0.12 > debian sid guest, about a month ago I started having > invalid magic cookie problems when trying to do > anything X related from a terminal (...) Are you running applications entirely w

vbox sid invalid mcookie

2011-07-17 Thread Cousin Stanley
Using a debian squeeze host for a Virtual Box 4.0.12 debian sid guest, about a month ago I started having invalid magic cookie problems when trying to do anything X related from a terminal I think it started after updating xorg in the sid guest, but I don't know that for sure .