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Bug#196621: Bug#196554: Jeez, already reported. Merging.



On Sun, Jun 08, 2003 at 09:06:49PM +0200, Tore Anderson wrote:
> 
> severity 196621 important
> reassign 196621 xlibs
> merge 196554 196621
> quit
> 
>   My apologies for the duplicate bug report, I would never have thought
>  this bug would not be considered release critical, hence I did not
>  notice it when searching for an already submitted bug.
> 
>   Also, contrary to what's suggested earlier in the bug log, I experience
>  this when running startx from a virtual console, and not only from XDM
>  (which is also broken).  Purging the xdm package doesn't help either,
>  I still need to downgrade both the xlibs and xserver-xfree86 packages to
>  get a functional X server.

I have multiple reports, as well as personal experience with, a
workaround involving startx.

1) Stop all running X servers.
2) rm $HOME/.Xauthority
3) startx

You do not have to downgrade any packages for this workaround.

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