Paul, I tried out your suggestion and unfortunately chown didnt work..i also tried to chmod a+rwx the file and that didnt seem to solve the problem either. However, i did find out from your suggestion that the ownership was changed from buck.buck to root.root .. i decided to try and delete all the .Xauthority files in my home directory after backing them up of course (the three files being: .Xauthority, .Xauthority-c, and .Xauthority-l) this seems to have worked!! when i typed startx after I did that a new .Xauthority file was written :D !! ! and i didnt get an error message WOO HOO!!! im stoked!! i also figured out what was causing the error which may be helpful to some of the other newbies out there that are getting the same thing... while i was using X as a different user entirely i logged out back to console mode .. then i switched to the superuser mode with the su command and typed startx and went into an X window session when I logged out of that and exited the su shell, the file ownership had changed to root and i began to get the same error again.. what ill have to do now when i want to log into and X session as root would be to switch virtual consoles and log in that way ..at least i hope so .. hopefully all this info helps someone out there .. i wish i'd known this before hehehe.. thanks again paul .. \m/linux rulez buckster xoxoxoox >From: Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [newbie] error msg-->xauth: /home/buck/.Xauthority not >writable changes will be ignored >Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 19:48:07 +0200 (CEST) > >On Sun, 4 Jun 2000, buck h wrote: > >This sounds a lot like the problem Bambi and others had with .kderc. > >Check if the owner of .Xauthority is indeed "buck.buck". If that is not so >(then it probably is root), log in as root, and change things with > >chown buck.buck .Xauthority > >Let me know if that helped, ok? > >Paul > > >i have checked the archives and just about every other source of info i > >could think of but i just cant seem to find the answer...i am new to this > >mailing list too by the way :).. any help would be much appreciated .. > >thanks!! > > > >problem: i just installed mandrake 7.0 (again) .. after i logged in for >the > >first time (as a user), i typed startx to enter X window system with Kwm >and > >KDE..everything seemed fine at the time and i setup my KPPP, changed the > >background, setup Netscape, etc. nothing big, then i exited... when i >typed > >startx again however, i recieved the following error message---> auth: > >/home/buck/.Xauthority not writable changes will be ignored then it >contined > >to go back into X .. when i logged out the second time and tried startx > >again i recieved a different error message---> xauth: time out in locking > >authority file /home/buck/.Xauthority > > > >i have never had this type of problem with any other distro but im sure >it > >is easily remedied .. well, im hoping heheh > > > >thank you very much :) > >buckster > >xoxoxoox > >________________________________________________________________________ > >Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com > > > > > >-- >A pound of gold cannot buy an ounce of time > >)0( [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] )0( >http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 >Registered Linux User 174403 > ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
