Re: Strange xauth problem
Robert Moonen <[email protected]>
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Jafaruddin Lie wrote: > Robert Moonen wrote: > >> It looks like you're trying to access an X display statred by jafar as >> root, if you log out of X and log back in as root, then it should work >> OK. but this is a dangerous workaround. >> >> >> > Yes, I was. The point is, on my laptop the command works just fine. > On my PC, it doesn't. I am at lost trying to figure out what's wrong. > Yes there are other ways around it, I can run su - on terminal, start a > shell session as root and run the program that way, it is more like it > doesn't work and I want to know what's wrong so I can fix it :) Well, then I don't know, my Debian unstable machine has always displayed this property, I usually just log into X as root to do what I need to do and then log out again. -- regards Robert G. Moonen registered Linux user number 298132 On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to comprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. Charles Babbage.