gnome login as root only

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meres · #1 Post by **meres** » 2005-09-23 18:08

it seems that i can only use my gui desktop if i am logged in as the root user. when i try to log in under a diff acct i get the following message:

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xauth: timeout in locking authority file /home/.Xauthority

this repeats for a while then the screen goes blank, then a bunch of other messages scroll by then the last message i get is that :
file /home/.Xauthority doesn't exist.....which is true..I can't find it anyway...
any ideas?

Harold · #2 Post by **Harold** » 2005-09-25 15:31

Get to a console prompt and try xinit /usr/bin/gnome-session

anon · #3 Post by **anon** » 2005-09-25 16:55

Have you created a user account? AFAIK it ought to be: /home/<username>/.Xauthority? adduser will add a user account for you. You could always try to create the file (although it ought to be created for you it will find permission problems), logged in as your username:
touch ./.Xauthority

meres · #4 Post by **meres** » 2005-09-27 02:59

i tried all of the posted suggestions and couldn't get things going. Out of curiosity i tried starting gnome on a dif. machine and had the same problems when logged in under my user id.

I decided to srap the one machine and start over. this time before i started gnome for the first time after the install i logged in under the user id and ran startx. everything ran fine and dandy. it seems that you need to start gnome the first time under a user id before starting it from root. i guess i'll scrap the file server tomorrow and see if i have the same results.