Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE after 7.2 upgrade

[Eric W. Bates]

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Seems xauth is not being invoked to create an authentication cookie when
I use startx.

I'm still digging and comparing with the 6.9 version of xorg; but can
anyone shorten this for me?

Does xauth create the cookies?

Do fresh ones normally get created every time you start a session?

Can cookies hang around indefinitely? i.e. can I just add some to my
.Xauthority file and forget about this?

Does startx do the xauth invocation, or xinit or some other tool in the
chain?

Thanks for your time.

Eric W. Bates wrote:
> hm...
> 
> I can't actually launch a local X process. KDE starts, and apache and
> Thunderbird launch (because of a saved session); but I can't start an X
> process from a command line:
> 
> $ echo $DISPLAY
> :0
> $ xterm
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: No protocol specified
> 
> That explains why ssh forwarding fails... but I'm still clueless.
> 
> Eric W. Bates wrote:
>> Anyone else run into X authentication issues after the 7.2 upgrade?
> 
>> I get the same error from every machine I ssh to after the 6.9 --> 7.2
>> upgrade process:
> 
>> Xlib: connection to "localhost:10.0" refused by server
>> Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key
> 
>> Thanks.
> 
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