Re: [Cooker] X server impossible to launch: xauth issue

[Laurent Suchet]

pcpa@mandriva.com.br a écrit :
> Quoting Moreno <moreno.mg@gmail.com>:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 10:41 AM,  <laurent.s3@free.fr> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > this morning I used XFdrake to change some settings . Testing the new
> > > configuration was ok, but when restarting Xserver, I have:
> > >
> > > xauth: error in locking authority file /home/laurent/.Xauthority
> > > (repeted several time)
> > > execve failed for /etc/X11/X (errno 2)
> > >
> > >
> > > What could be the issue? Is it a .rpmnew conf file problem? (during 
> > > update in
> > > CLI no .rpmnew was signaled..)
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > LS
> >
> > This is a well know Bug without a possible solution (for the moment),
> > this problm come each time you change the X configuration.
> >
> > To solve
> >
> > 1) Remove the demaged link X in /etc/X11
> > 2) Create the link of /usr/bin/Xorg in /etc/X11/X
> >
> >
> > Bye Bye, Moreno
>
>  There is an bug report about it at
> https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=41021
> that was marked a duplicate of a related one I opened
> https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=40970
>
>  I believe this is caused by some old code in drakx-kdb-mouse-x11,
> from when there were alternate X Servers, as the link is properly
> created when installing x11-server-xorg.
>
>  You can fix it by running something like:
>
> $ sudo ln -sf ../../../usr/bin/Xorg /usr/share/X11/X
>
>
> Paulo
Hi,

Moreno's trick worked well, recreating simply the symbolic link 
/etc/X11/X --> /usr/bin/Xorg solved the issue.

Thanks Moreno and Paulo

Laurent