https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=465955 User volker.barth@ltm.uni-erlangen.de added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=465955#c13 --- Comment #13 from Volker Barth <volker.barth@ltm.uni-erlangen.de> 2009-01-27 09:42:47 MST --- (In reply to comment #12)
OK, so the workaround described in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/269954 works. Volker, do you see any of the other symptoms described in this report?
Which do you mean exactly? Like written in comment #2, when starting an application I always got: No protocol specified xhost: unable to open display ":0.0" not the identical message, but fairly identical for me. The symptom about sometimes it did work, sometimes it did not: definitely yes, that made it for a long time a bit hard to track down. The workaround 'cd ; ls' getting things going again: no idea, never tried this at that time because I did not know of this trick.
Can you verify that it is NFS that breaks the access to your .Xauthority file?
I cannot really verify it. I'd have to move my complete home to my local disk, which would mean quite some changes in the configuration. Problem is, this is my computer at work, playing around with it is no good idea because I need it in a working state.
You can dump the content with 'xauth -list'. What changes when you do this after access breaks?
see comment #2: "xauth list" gave me: xauth: /home/iwtm05/.Xauthority not writeable, changes will be ignored iirc, the content which was dumped looked ok to me, the file was just not properly accessible, although "ll .Xauthority" showed me as owner and access rights were set properly (rw). I am quite unsure about the following, but iirc after doing the ll I was able again to open windows. Which would confirm the trick described in the ubuntu link above (cd;ls).
Please try this from the home directory mounted to the machine where things break.
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