Dear friends: I just turned on my computer for the day and discovered that when I tried to log into Xwindows (startx), I got the the following message: "timeout in locking authority file /home/sher/.Xauthority" My computer would then try to get into XWindows (KDE) but the blank screen that precedes KDE would just freeze for an eternity. Not knowing what could be causing it, I decided to experiment (safely) by renaming .Xauthority to .Xauthority.old and rebooting. It worked! I guess it created a new .Xauthority file (I'll find out when I reboot if that's the case). At any rate, I got into KDE with all my settings, etc. Everything seems fine. My question: did I do the right thing? Or is a more serious issue involved? Thanks so much. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net
