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timeout in locking authority file /home/username/.Xauthority

  • Posted June 8, 2013

Whenever I ssh in to my droplet (puTTY), Ubuntu 12.04 spits out:

/usr/bin/xauth: timeout in locking authority file /home/username/.Xauthority

Does anyone know how I should address this?

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jcinalberta • November 13, 2016

Hola Pablo,

Esto tratando de instalar en ubuntu un desktop. Estoy usando puTTY para conectarme a un server con ubuntu 14.04. xauth: timeout in locking authority file /home/ubuntu/.Xauthority I did:

1 ) cd /home/ubuntu mv .Xauthority .Xauthority.old touch .Xauthority SUDO chown machine:machine .Xauthority

  1. cd /home/user ls -a -lh SUDO chown user:user .Xau*

but still no good results, any idea?

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riahc4 • August 26, 2016

Im having the same issue.

My username is bob and I did:

cd /home/bob mv .Xauthority .Xauthority.old touch .Xauthority chown bob:bob .Xauthority

But nothing. Restarted vncserver, same error and now I cant use VNC.

srachendrarwl • May 13, 2015

can anybody tells me what does ? ----------- ? ? ? ?selinux means in below output

[oracle@relxmedia01 /]$ ls -lrth total 14G ?--------- ? ? ? ? ? selinux drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Feb 17 2010 srv drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Feb 17 2010 media drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 4.0K Oct 3 2011 usr drwx------ 2 root root 16K Oct 18 2011 lost+found drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Oct 18 2011 tftpboot

srachendrarwl • May 12, 2015

can anybody tells me what does ? ----------- ? ? ? ?selinux means in below output

[oracle@relxmedia01 /]$ ls -lrth total 14G ?--------- ? ? ? ? ? selinux drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Feb 17 2010 srv drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Feb 17 2010 media drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 4.0K Oct 3 2011 usr drwx------ 2 root root 16K Oct 18 2011 lost+found drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Oct 18 2011 tftpboot

srachendrarwl • May 12, 2015

can anybody tells me what does ? ----------- ? ? ? ?selinux means in below output

[oracle@relxmedia01 /]$ ls -lrth total 14G ?--------- ? ? ? ? ? selinux drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Feb 17 2010 srv drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Feb 17 2010 media drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 4.0K Oct 3 2011 usr drwx------ 2 root root 16K Oct 18 2011 lost+found drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Oct 18 2011 tftpboot

srachendrarwl • May 12, 2015

can anybody help me to get what does ?------ ?? ? ? ?selinux means in below [oracle@relxmedia01 /]$ ls -lrth total 14G ?--------- ? ? ? ? ? selinux drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Feb 17 2010 srv drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Feb 17 2010 media drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 4.0K Oct 3 2011 usr drwx------ 2 root root 16K Oct 18 2011 lost+found drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Oct 18 2011 tftpboot

solomon.j.sands • May 29, 2014

Kamal Nasser had it right the first time, the only thing is that you have to do it from a local console. If you do it whilst ssh-ing in then any Xauth you create during that session will have the same ownership issues.

bose • May 23, 2014

Tu maquina inicial le hayas puesto #xhost + <br>En tu maquina donde te conectas verifica <br>Que el /etc/selinux/config este como permissive o disable <br>

Kamal Nasser • June 14, 2013

Awesome!! Really glad to hear that :]

pablo • June 13, 2013

Holy $H!T Kamal; <br> <br>It worked like a charm!!! You’re a genius… or, a really good Googler! (Is that even a word?) <br> <br>In all seriousness, thanks for taking the time to help me out. <br> <br>-Pablo

Kamal Nasser • June 11, 2013

Try this, Pablo: http://askubuntu.com/a/166115