Hi,
I'm getting the same issue with X apps not being able to access
~/.Xauthority with /home being mounted from a NFS server.
I find that cat'ing .Xauthority in another window fixes the problem.
I also find that this issue can stop the gnome-screensaver password
dialog from displaying. This requires switching to a console, logging
in and then running `cat .Xauthority`.
Unfortunately I can't pinpoint exactly when this started happening, my
workstation runs unstable, it was sometime last year.
Cheers!
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