x?

[Zimmerman, Eric]

> Ok to reply to myself:
> x just quit itself after about 3 mins (too impatient!)...
> the error is:
> /usr/X11R6/bin/xinit: Server error.
> /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth: error in locking authority file
/home/ej/.Xauthority
> This was working fine, but just today it has stopped working. Only
thing
> i have installed since was sudo.
> sudo startx works, but loads the root session, i would prefer my
own...
> Any ideas?


Google told me this:

Sounds like you have a stale authority file.  Try just deleting it
before the next time you start up...