[Bug 334382] New: Invalid ~/. Xauthority file prevents running root applications such as YaST
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@novell.com ReportedBy: mhutchinson@novell.com QAContact: xorg-maintainer-bugs@forge.provo.novell.com 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. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=334382#c1 --- Comment #1 from Michael Hutchinson <mhutchinson@novell.com> 2007-10-16 13:54:30 MST --- Created an attachment (id=178848) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=178848) the bad ~/.Xauthority file -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=334382#c2 Hans Petter Jansson <hpj@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |ASSIGNED --- Comment #2 from Hans Petter Jansson <hpj@novell.com> 2007-10-17 01:13:35 MST --- User reports not having run any KDE applications either. I'm keeping an eye on this in case there are more reports, or we find out how the cookie file got into a bad state. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=334382 Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |sndirsch@novell.com Component|X.Org |X11 Applications QAContact|xorg-maintainer-bugs@forge.provo.novell.com |sndirsch@novell.com -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=334382#c3 --- Comment #3 from Michael Hutchinson <mhutchinson@novell.com> 2007-10-17 08:08:40 MST --- It happened again after reboot (and auto-login). -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=334382#c4 --- Comment #4 from Hans Petter Jansson <hpj@novell.com> 2007-10-17 15:09:21 MST --- I'm going to try and reproduce this bug using auto-login. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=334382#c5 --- Comment #5 from Michael Hutchinson <mhutchinson@novell.com> 2007-11-11 11:02:14 MST --- I've run into this bug on another machine without auto-login. Also a clean install, but with home directory mostly copied from the machine this bug first happened on. N.B. the problem only happened once so far on this machine; it's been working fine most of the time. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=334382#c6 JP Rosevear <jpr@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |bryce1@obviously.com --- Comment #6 from JP Rosevear <jpr@novell.com> 2007-11-22 03:47:53 MST --- *** Bug 223341 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=223341 -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=334382 User mhutchinson@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=334382#c7 --- Comment #7 from Michael Hutchinson <mhutchinson@novell.com> 2007-12-05 09:54:15 MST --- I don't know if this is related, but I've just had another similar error preventing me from running GUI apps as root: No protocol specified (y2controlcenter-gnome:5631): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: Either I'm incredibly unlucky, or this is a severe bug. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=334382 User philippniehues@yahoo.de added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=334382#c8 Philipp Niehues <philippniehues@yahoo.de> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |philippniehues@yahoo.de --- Comment #8 from Philipp Niehues <philippniehues@yahoo.de> 2008-05-11 12:20:50 MST --- I am pretty sure to have the same bug: After installing my system (+Gnome) I updated it (in Gnome with the applet). After that I was no longer available to access yast2 or any other application via gnomesu. After finding this bugreport I tried to rename this Xauthority file, restarted X and now it works fine again. Bye -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=334382 User hpj@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=334382#c9 Hans Petter Jansson <hpj@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|ASSIGNED |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |mhutchinson@novell.com --- Comment #9 from Hans Petter Jansson <hpj@novell.com> 2008-08-08 21:23:13 MDT --- Has anyone seen this in openSUSE 11.0 or newer? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=334382 Hans Petter Jansson <hpj@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Priority|P5 - None |P4 - Low -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=334382 User mhutchinson@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=334382#c10 Michael Hutchinson <mhutchinson@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |ASSIGNED Info Provider|mhutchinson@novell.com | --- Comment #10 from Michael Hutchinson <mhutchinson@novell.com> 2008-08-22 18:31:43 MDT --- No, I haven't seen this since, but that may be because I haven't used auto-login since the second time this happened... -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=334382 Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- QAContact|sndirsch@novell.com |qa@suse.de -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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