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

Posted on 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?

Thanks!

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