On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 03:26:12PM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > xauth: creating new authority file /home/user/.Xauthority > /usr/bin/X11/startx: line 132: cannot create temporary file for here > document: Permission denied This sort of error can be caused by bad permissions on "/tmp" (or wherever $TMPDIR is pointing, if set). Here's what mine looks like: adric@yggdrasil[~]$ ls -ld /tmp drwxrwxrwt 13 root root 4096 2005-08-18 14:42 /tmp If the permissions look OK, you should also verify that the filesystem isn't completely full.
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