Comment 21 for bug 250712

Then there are definitely two underlying issues producing similar symptoms. In my case: When the NFS automount times out, the next X client that tries to check .Xauthority is unable to do so. I can only assume that it used to attempt a read (which would trigger the mounter) and has been changed to be "clever" now and simply try to stat() the file (which will not trigger the mounter).

Anyway, it's obviously never going to be fixed so I don't know why I bother even responding here...