| 2021-09-17 13:16:32 |
Eduardo Santos |
description |
On Ubuntu, if you create a directory with the same name as the system's hostname in the user's home directory ($HOME/$HOSTNAME), when this user attempts to startx, xauth will complain about the lock in the authority file ~/.Xauthority. This also creates the files ~/.Xauthority-c and ~/.Xauthority-l. This is a very specific bug, I'm not sure if it's Ubuntu-related or xinit-related exactly. I can reproduce it consistently (minimal install, no additional pacakges installed aprt from xorg).
System info:
- Ubuntu Server 20.04.3 LTS
- xinit 1.4.1-0ubuntu2 |
On Ubuntu, if you create a directory with the same name as the system's hostname in the user's home directory ($HOME/$HOSTNAME) and the hostname contains a dot (e.g., localhost.localdomain), when this user attempts to startx, xauth will complain about the lock in the authority file ~/.Xauthority. This also creates the files ~/.Xauthority-c and ~/.Xauthority-l. This is a *very* specific bug, I'm not sure if it's Ubuntu-related or xinit-related exactly. I can reproduce it consistently (minimal install, no additional pacakges installed aprt from xorg).
System info:
- Ubuntu Server 20.04.3 LTS
- xinit 1.4.1-0ubuntu2 |
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