[OpenIndiana-discuss] lightdm fails!

[Tim Mooney]

In regard to: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] lightdm fails!, Apostolos...:

>>> ** (process:1026): WARNING **: Error reading existing Xauthority: Failed to open file ?/home/apostolo/.Xauthority?: Permission denied
>>> Error writing X authority: Failed to open X authority /home/apostolo/.Xauthority: Permission denied
>>
>> You can either fix permissions on it (it should be owned by you and have
>> your primary group, with mode 0600) or completely remove ~/.Xauthority
>>
>> Once you've done that, log out and log back in and see if the messages
>> have changed.
>
> This solved the problem! Thank you. I think this should go into the
> documentation.  Thanks once more for your time and help!

Glad I could help.  You and many other people on the mailing list have
provided information and solutions to issues I've run into, so I'm happy
to be able to "return the favor".

Tim
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