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Re: [Cooker] X server impossible to launch: xauth issue

Laurent Suchet

2008-05-31

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pcpa@(protected) :
> Quoting Moreno <moreno.mg@(protected)>:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 10:41 AM, <laurent.s3@(protected):
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> this morning I used XFdrake to change some settings . Testing the new
>>> configuration was ok, but when restarting Xserver, I have:
>>>
>>> xauth: error in locking authority file /home/laurent/.Xauthority
>>> (repeted several time)
>>> execve failed for /etc/X11/X (errno 2)
>>>
>>>
>>> What could be the issue? Is it a .rpmnew conf file problem? (during
>>> update in
>>> CLI no .rpmnew was signaled..)
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> LS
>>>
>>
>> This is a well know Bug without a possible solution (for the moment),
>> this problm come each time you change the X configuration.
>>
>> To solve
>>
>> 1) Remove the demaged link X in /etc/X11
>> 2) Create the link of /usr/bin/Xorg in /etc/X11/X
>>
>>
>> Bye Bye, Moreno
>
> There is an bug report about it at
> https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=41021
> that was marked a duplicate of a related one I opened
> https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=40970
>
> I believe this is caused by some old code in drakx-kdb-mouse-x11,
> from when there were alternate X Servers, as the link is properly
> created when installing x11-server-xorg.
>
> You can fix it by running something like:
>
> $ sudo ln -sf ../../../usr/bin/Xorg /usr/share/X11/X
>
>
> Paulo
>
>
>
Hi,

Moreno's trick worked well, recreating simply the symbolic link
/etc/X11/X --> /usr/bin/Xorg solved the issue.

Thanks Moreno and Paulo

Laurent
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