I'm getting the following error message when I startx as a normal user (Everything works fine as root): "xauth: timeout in locking authority file /home/scott/.Xauthority" I've tried removing and replacing the .Xauthority file in my home directory and it makes no difference. I read the man pages on xauth, but whenever I try to use any of the xauth commands, I get the same error message. I also searched the list archives and came up with nothing useful. This problem started after I deleted the 128-bit version of Netscape and installed the Mandrake 6.0 update 4.61 Netscape RPMs. I'm running Mandrake 6.0 with all updates installed. In addition, I upgraded KDE to 1.1.2 using the RPMs from 6.1. Everything was working fine until I uninstalled and reinstalled Netscape, although I don't understand how this could be connected to Xauth. Can someone please tell me how to fix this? TIA Scott Miller
