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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=334382

           Summary: Invalid ~/.Xauthority file prevents running root
                    applications such as YaST
           Product: openSUSE 10.3
           Version: Final
          Platform: i686
        OS/Version: openSUSE 10.3
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Normal
          Priority: P5 - None
         Component: X.Org
        AssignedTo: hpj@xxxxxxxxxx
        ReportedBy: mhutchinson@xxxxxxxxxx
         QAContact: xorg-maintainer-bugs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
          Found By: ---


[This bug is not consistently reproducible]

It appears to be possible for the ~/.Xauthority to to get into a state that
prevents accessing X from root. This prevents running admin apps such as YaST,
with errors such as the following:
Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key
(y2controlcenter-gnome:18198): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:

This has happened to me once -- however, the problem with GUI root commands not
doing anything after the gnomesu password entry has happened in several
sessions,  though I did not investigate it at the time. Removing ~/.Xauthority
and restarting X fixed the problem.

The invalid ~/.Xauthority file is attached.

Note: I'm not running xgl, and I'm using auto-login.


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