Re: Strange xauth problem

Robert Moonen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.user-groups.mlug.main
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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

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'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.
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