And happened again. This time no screen lock just a simple apt-get update / upgrade. Then no X clients could be run. Again. .Xauthority was owned by the root user! After chowin'ing back to my user everything continued to work, it seems.
-- After gdm upgrade no X cliens can be run https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/196464 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs