Re: Freeze Problem

I friend of mine had this problem with Gutsy, too. I don't know what
triggers it.

I created a patch which automatically deletes .Xauthority if xauth fails.
Unfortunately I couldn't test it (because xauth never fails for me), but it
compiles fine. Should I open a bug report about this?


On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 6:01 PM, Giantics <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thank you.
> "xauth -b quit" didn't help.
>
> But deleting the file ".Xauthority" helped.
> Perhaps this problem is caused by my Ubuntu Hardy (8.04) Beta.
> On Gutsy it worked.
>
> Thomas

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--- libexec/autosu.c	2008-03-29 19:49:23.000000000 +0100
+++ libexec.new/autosu.c	2008-03-30 17:39:21.000000000 +0200
@@ -271,7 +271,16 @@
 
 	if (pclose (in) != 0) {
 		perror ("could not run xauth, pclose != 0");
-		exit (EXIT_SYSERROR);
+		static gboolean second_try = FALSE;
+		if (second_try) {
+			exit (EXIT_SYSERROR);
+		}
+		else {
+			second_try = TRUE;
+			g_printf ("trying to delete ~/.Xauthority and running xauth again");
+			system ("rm ~/.Xauthority");
+			return load_xauth ();
+		}
 	}
 
 	/* Now we need to move the buffer to a shared memory segment */