XFree86

Forum: X and Fluxbox
Topic: XFree86
started by: Red04Bull

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Posted by Red04Bull on Jan. 25 2006,06:30

here we go
so i set up XFree86 and everything is fine then i copy my home dir and put xfree86.dsl in my /mydsl dir so then i reboot  using the home=hdc2 and mydsl=hdc2 cheetcodes in my grub boot

it sets them fine and loads XFree fine

then it gets to start X and i get this message with some stuff and then it sends me to command line

xauth:  timeout in locking authority file /home/dsl/.Xauthority

can someone help me out please

thanks in advance

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Posted by Red04Bull on Jan. 25 2006,06:39

im running a frugal install too (just so yall know)

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Posted by Red04Bull on Jan. 25 2006,06:56

would i need to do a remaster to make this work

because the config file is written in /etc/X11

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Posted by Grim on Jan. 26 2006,08:29

check the permissions of ~/.Xauthority and see if you have read/write access to the file.

ls -l ~/.Xauthority

and tell me what you get.

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Posted by Red04Bull on Jan. 27 2006,03:20

-rw-------   1 dsl    staff

what should i chmod it too?

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