Bug#424409: /usr/bin/startx: startx not setting up xauth correctly

[Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org>]

reassign 424409 x11-common
reassign 406061 x11-common
forcemerge 406061 424409
thank you



Joe Nahmias wrote:
> Well, that was certainly interesting.  I guess it helps, but I'm not
> quite sure why...  see the typescript below to see what I mean.
> Essentially, nothing changed -- except that now it works.


Ok, thanks, merging this bug report with #406061.

So, you didn't have any /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config file? Or you had one
without 'allowed_users=console'?

Could you tell us what/how you upgraded recently? Did you have a plain
Etch system before? and you switch the whole X to unstable when the
problem occured? /var/log/dpkg.log might help you, look for x11-common
and xorg related lines.

Few things have changed regarding the packaging of X between Etch and
Xorg 7.2, so it would be strange that Xwrapper.config disappeared. In
bug #406061, the problem occurred after an upgrade from Sarge, there are
much more packaging changes there.

Brice