hi, probably basic stuff, but I could not figure it out:
on a new xfree install 4.2.0 I have created a .Xauthority putting the following in startx: dd if=/dev/urandom count=1|md5sum|cut -f1 -d/|sed -e 's/^/add :0 . /'|xauth -q now, since -auth is defaulted I did nothing there. listing the xauth file gives COMPAQ/unix:0 MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 7871d50d031031fe9a28883a93ef3304 display is set to: $ echo $DISPLAY :0 when I try to start the xserver I get the following error messages: $ startx 1+0 records in 1+0 records out Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified waiting for X server to begin accepting connections . Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified .. Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified and so on. any suggestion on what I'm doing wrong? Thanks, TA