Bug#357736: /usr/X11R6/bin/startx: startx needs some way to delete stale $xserverauthfile files

[paul van den berg <paulberg@wanadoo.nl>]

Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org> wrote:

> About a year ago, you reported a bug to the Debian BTS regarding
> serverauth files being left in your home directory. I can't reproduce
> anymore.
> Did you reproduce this problem recently? With Xorg/Etch?
> 
I installed a fresh etch-i386 in vmware, with xorg and xfce4, but 
without gdm or something like that.
I started X with startx&, opened a xterm, su-ed to root and typed reboot.
On the next systemstart I had a file ~/.serverauth.6179

Regards, Paul