This is something important, i hope that by posting this i can help people not fall victim to this bug. xbase-clients version 3.3.6-4 has a nasty bug in the xauth command. This bug will cause ssh X11 forwarding to fail, and if xauth add or xauth remove is run on the ~/.Xauthority file it will cause that file to lose all X authority data, which means that *NO* X client can connect to the X server. The temporary solution is to not run the xauth command until this bug is fixed, or to revert to an earlier version of xbase-clients. For more information, please refer to the Debian bug tracking system, in particular Bug#59413 <http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=59413> -- finger for GPG public key.
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