Question
timeout in locking authority file /home/username/.Xauthority
- Posted on June 8, 2013
Asked by pablo
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?
Thanks!
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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.
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
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