Thanks Paul<br><br>That did it.<br><br>Couldnt believe how many people had posted for help with `Unable to copy the user's Xauthorization file' and no where did I come across your simple perfect answer :)<br><br>Thanks again<br><br><b><i>Paul Dean <paul@thecave.ws></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> Hi "WolfBite",<br><br>The Xauthority file is generated from xauth program, and lives in<br>~[user]/.Xauthority .<br><br>To regenerate the file for the user, simply run <br>`xauth generate [hostname]/unix:0 .`<br><br>Replace "hostname" with your machines name.<br><br>Do this twice, once for you machines real hostname and once for<br>localhost.localdomain.<br><br>See `man xauth`<br><br><br>--<br><br><br>Thanks<br><br>Paul Dean.<br><br>QOTD<br>"Life is not WHAT you make it, it's WHO you have in it..."<br><br>Today is the first day of the rest of your life.<br><br><br>You're definitely
on their list. The question to ask next is what list<br>it is.<br><br><br><br>On Sun, 18 Nov 2007 23:25:14 -0800 (PST)<br>WolfBite <wolfbite_aus@yahoo.com> wrote:<br><br>>I'm tinkering with Mint (aka ubuntu aka debian :)<br>><br>>Everything going ok until suddenly synaptic came back with<br>>`Unable to copy the user's Xauthorization file'<br>>think it got clobbered or something while installing a program of some<br>>sort google and cant find much but the same thing<br>><br>>synaptic still works from root and sudo <br>><br>>I dont want a quick fix (it still works)<br>>I want to know how to fix the Xauthorization file<br>><br>>both root and user Xauthorization file a 0 length<br>>but on another test machine (great to tinker :) the Xauthorization is<br>>317bytes<br>><br>>can anyone point me to any info that make sense :)<br>><br>>Thanks<br>>wolfbite<br>><br>>
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