startx not working...(not a stale lock file problem)

[Jon TURNEY]

bali asur wrote:
> I think it is not a stale lock. As there is no lock file to be found.

> IN0335-01[51]+ startx
> xauth:  creating new authority file /home/pomo/.serverauth.2520
> xauth:  unable to link authority file /home/pomo/.serverauth.2520, use /home/pom
> o/.serverauth.2520-n
> xauth:  creating new authority file /home/pomo/.Xauthority
> xauth:  creating new authority file /home/pomo/.Xauthority
> xauth:  unable to link authority file /home/pomo/.Xauthority, use /home/pomo/.Xa
> uthority-n
> xauth:  creating new authority file /home/pomo/.Xauthority
> xauth:  creating new authority file /home/pomo/.Xauthority
> xauth:  unable to link authority file /home/pomo/.Xauthority, use /home/pomo/.Xa
> uthority-n
> 
> giving up.
> xinit:  No such file or directory (errno 2):  unable to connect to X server
> xinit:  No such process (errno 3):  Server error.
> xauth:  creating new authority file /home/pomo/.Xauthority

Can you try launching the server via "xinit" instead of "startx" ?

Your problem seems to be with xauth writing to a file.

Perhaps you could run something like "xauth -v add :0 . `mcookie`" and try to
work out why it can't write to the file it wants to write to?

Are you actually using Xauthority?

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