Re: startx not working...(not a stale lock file problem)

[JesÃs Alberto Paz JimÃnez <alberto dot pazjimenez at gmail dot com>]

Jon TURNEY <jon.turney <at> dronecode.org.uk> writes:

> Can you try launching the server via "xinit" instead of "startx" ?
> 
> Your problem seems to be with xauth writing to a file.
> 
> Perhaps you could run something like "xauth -v add :0 . `mcookie`" and try to
> work out why it can't write to the file it wants to write to?
> 
> Are you actually using Xauthority?

I have the same problem after installing the new version of cygwin.
I done a clean installation not an update.

With xinit the error is the same.

If I execute xauth as you propose I get the following error:

$ xauth -b -v add :0 . `mcookie`
Attempting to break locks on authority file /home/Jesus Alberto/.Xauthority
xauth:  creating new authority file /home/Jesus Alberto/.Xauthority
Using authority file /home/Jesus Alberto/.Xauthority
Writing authority file /home/Jesus Alberto/.Xauthority
xauth:  unable to link authority file /home/Jesus Alberto/.Xauthority, use /home
/Jesus Alberto/.Xauthority-n

I have tried to create /home/Jesus Alberto/.Xauthority and I can. But if a
create an empty file with this name the file is deleted after xauth is executed.






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