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Topic: I broke it! X won't start, "xauth: timeout in locking..."

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Posted: May 22 2005,14:30

the command should have been this.

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cd ~;startx

I was schleepy. :P

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dmizzel

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Posted: May 22 2005,23:34

Thanx for the correction but...

It still doesn't work. I'm getting:

-su: cd~: command not found

then the same 4 lines of ' xauth: timeout... blah blah '
then the same minimal screen with dock apps and only xterm in the menu

mikshaw

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Posted: May 23 2005,02:17

it's "cd<SPACE>~", or simply "cd".
This takes you to your home directory.

I dunno if running startx from $HOME is going to make any difference though.
Personally I'd delete .Xauthority if it exists and try again.

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Posted: May 23 2005,07:09

.Xauthority exists however it is not included in my backup.tar.gz (no filetool.lst entry for it) therefore it it being ' refreshed ' everytime I reboot. If I reboot with ' norestore ' I don't have any problems. but Thanx for the suggestion.

:angry:

I am sooooooooooooooooooooooooooo frustrated!!!

I'm getting ready to start over. Seeing as though I don't remember what I actually did to break it makes it hard to fix. Thanx for all your help but I am ready to give up. I'll still check this form if anyone has something else for me to try. Are we allowed to curse on these forms??

I have been trying to work around the problem which leads me to further frustration... it deals with permissions and user/groups issues while copying files from one backup.tar.gz (the broken one) to another backup.tar.gz (my last working saftey copy).

In the interest of keeping some order to my helplessness... Please feel free to join me for refreshments an finger foods over at the 'Other Help Topics' form, where I'll be serving up this problem.

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Posted: May 23 2005,13:26

You probably shouldn't try to copy files manually from one backup to another...this will mess with file ownerships if you're not very careful.

All files in /home/dsl should be owned by dsl, and just about everything else is owned by root.
use the command
sudo chown -R dsl.staff /home/dsl/
to make sure everything in $HOME has proper ownership, and then run the backup tool. See if that helps.

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