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About once a month, I try to start X windows on my local desktop with:

   startx

but the terminal seems to hang, then gives the error:

   xauth:  timeout in locking authority file /home/myaccount/.serverauth.8280
   xauth:  timeout in locking authority file /home/myaccount/.Xauthority

I tried all the methods people have suggested when I looked up this error:

  1. Make sure the permissions for .Xauthority belong to myaccount
  2. Delete the .Xauthority file before doing startx

Lately though, those methods did not work. I then saw that there were some files in my home directory that were read only. Because of this, I realized that my home directory itself somehow did not have the correct permissions for me to even create files.

So based on the instructions at:

   https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1276517

I did:

   chown -R myaccount:myaccount /home/myaccount

and now I can start X windows.

I don't know why this happens every few weeks since nothing has changed about the OS. The only thing I can think of is that sometimes I ssh in to my desktop and this causes some kind problem to my account.

I am posting this here because I didn't see this as a solution to the .Xauthority problem, and it may be of benefit to someone. I am running Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 6.7.

Mr. Anonymous
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Yes, sukces, that was wired prowilidges of authority, and delete it can help or second method what I try was changing it to user mode.

maxim-25
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