Bug#489141: xserver-xorg: X server sometimes refuses local xclients to connect

[Michael Hanke <michael.hanke@gmail.com>]

Hi,

I'm still seeing this behavior occasionally. But recently I'm made
another observation. During the time when no X clients can cannot I see
this:

hanke@balin:~$ xauth list :0
xauth:  /home/hanke/.Xauthority not writable, changes will be ignored
balin/unix:0  MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1  18f7c5d44dfa751698177b1e48daab42

When looking at the permission, I have:

hanke@balin:~$ ll .Xauthority 
-rw------- 1 hanke users 2,4K 21. Aug 10:52 .Xauthority


but now, the next call to xauth looks _always_ (n=10 so far) like
this:

hanke@balin:~$ xauth list :0
balin/unix:0  MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1  18f7c5d44dfa751698177b1e48daab42


and after that the problem is _always_ fixed, ie. client can connect
again. The timing seems to be irrelevant, as soon as I do this, no
matter how quick or slow after I discovered the problem, it is fixed.


HTH,

Michael



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